YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Month: October, 2007

Physical Human factors and presentation style

This week, in intersession, I’m taking the Physical Human Factors class, taught by the legendary Bill Verplank. So far, it’s been fantastic. I think his unique presentation style is great– No powerpoint. It LOOKS like an overhead projector, but it’s really a camera attached to a tall tripod that points down at a sheet of [...]

links for 2007-10-16

TED | TEDBlog: Keeping track of your TEDTalks (tags: video ted learning culture)

Crowdsourcing Business/Technology ideas

In my former life working for a healthcare information technology company, I made a pitch with a friend to a few c-suite execs to institute something like this. A community generated innovation exchange. Actually, that’s what it was called if I remember correctly. I’ll look for the document sometime to double check. I have an [...]

Look out, LinkedIn!

For a long time now, I’ve wondered if there was ever going to be a day when LinkedIn and Facebook would converge into one.  It seemed crazy a few years ago, I know, but not really now.  Both are social networking applications that allow you to have groups of friends.  Why not just give people [...]

links for 2007-10-11

The Structured Web – A Primer (tags: semanticweb web3.0 web)

links for 2007-10-05

DIGG: New Digg Profiles Launch (tags: video UX)

links for 2007-10-03

» Brain Wellness: Train Your Brain to Be Happier « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains (tags: brain neuroscience) Cheat on the Need to Sleep / Wired How To’s (tags: sleep)