I’ve been waiting for someone in the tech/startup world to write something like this for a very long time, and finally, one of the 37Signals guys has said it. “Startup mythology demands that to create something great, you need superhuman sacrifices. You need to work for no pay, you need to put in 120 hours/week, [...]
A startup that doesn’t care about its product is a bit like a restaurant that doesn’t care about its food. That may seem hard to imagine at first, but if you think about it for a minute I’ll bet you know of at least one restaurant you’ve eaten at where this appears to be the [...]
Here’s the thing. I get that people are feeling mislead, that their heartstrings are being tugged ever so gently by a message of social or environmental responsibility, only to be snapped back to the hard reality of consumerism, all in the space of 30 seconds. But what I don’t get is why anyone is shocked [...]
Last year, my boyfriend Josh and I decided that we needed to make some changes to our diets. We’re generally very good eaters – anyone who knows me knows that I love to cook and I do it often – but it was the middle of winter, energy and morale were getting low, food was [...]
With SXSW right around the corner I think it’s time to dust off ye olde blog. We’ve been through some rough times around here the past couple of years, from losing my original domain at xinroman.com to almost losing the second one (turns out that the customer service people at GoDaddy are actually extremely helpful [...]
You know how every once in a while you hear one of those statistics about how lazy and tv-obsessed Americans are and you think “how is that even possible?” Like the one that said 40% of Americans will sit and watch a television show they don’t like just because they don’t want to change the [...]
Automatic flushing toilets were either not designed with women in mind, or not tested extensively on women before they were deployed in millions of bathrooms across America. Without getting into graphic detail, let’s just say that sometimes there are “other things” that women are trying to do when they are on the toilet besides simply [...]
This screengrab really speaks for itself:
When it comes to technology, I often find myself trying to live in two camps at once. On the one hand I am interested in new technology and new interfaces, and I want to be one of the first to try something and make some conjecture about how that new thing is or isn’t going [...]
I ran across this post from SVA’s new IxD program last week, the headline readingStudents Design Neighborhood Currencies. It sounded awesome, of course, so I clicked through only to find that my idea of what a group of IxD students would be asked to design and the actual assignment were way different. You see when [...]