Category Archives: Thoughts

Is “Caring About Product” Enough?

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 [...]

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Is it Okay to be a Luddite?

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 [...]

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Designing a New Currency

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 [...]

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