Posted in art, culture, productivity, software on August 26th, 2009 No Comments »
A while back I heard about how Seinfeld managed to write a joke every day: he plotted it on a large wall calendar. In essence, it became a game of ‘don’t break the chain’: make sure there’s a mark on the calendar every day you write a joke.
My personal productivity struggle has been songwriting. I [...]
Posted in art, culture, economics, events, marketing, media, software, workshops on November 6th, 2008 3 Comments »
Back in September I attended clearleft’s dconstruct conference. One presentation in the day really stuck out, and reviewing the slides again today I felt inspired to comment/echo one particular point.
Joshua Porter used some psychology principles to examine how to provide a persuasive user experience. See the slides and audio from his presentation are available, in [...]
Posted in art, culture on July 10th, 2007 No Comments »
So an idea that Sophie and I have had bubbling away for quite some time is starting to get moving. We’re joined by Danny Hope of Hobo Internet in our efforts, who persuaded me over lunch that the key idea was good enough to put some serious effort into.
We’ve started a blog to track our [...]
Posted in culture, marketing on May 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
A moment ago I visited boingboing.net (as I often do) and for the first time ever I noticed the top banner ad, instead of applying a mental blind spot like most users do. I was struck by why this happened, and had an idea….
Before I continue, I truly hope that:
this idea I’ve just had won’t [...]