YakShaving

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

Month: March, 2008

links for 2008-03-31

Perspective 2.0: Collection: Emerging futures (tags: BoP emergingmarkets design) Design4Billions : KnowledgeFramework (tags: design research BoP) Long View [ Biotechnology Milestones, 08000BC - 02022 ] (tags: biotechnology energy history project science social) similicio.us – find similar sites (tags: tools del.icio.us searchengine tagging)

links for 2008-03-29

Empathy as a Tool for Social Impact – IDEO — Social Edge (tags: empathy design socialentrepreneurship) visualcomplexity.com | VisLink: Revealing Relationships Amongst Visualizations (tags: graphs visualization data)

Micromanaging yourself

Lately, in the vein of a project I’m working on with Sri, I’ve been thinking a lot about analytics as it relates to personal growth and development. Enterprises have used dashboards because, as the cliche goes, knowledge and information is power. And the credibility and confidence to make the right decisions. (ignore the fact that [...]

links for 2008-03-24

What Microloans Miss: Financial Page: The New Yorker (tags: Microfinance finance development poverty economics) Clickatell Ruby API (tags: ruby rails rubyonrails sms)

links for 2008-03-21

Putting people first » Videos of Interaction 08 presentations now online (tags: design Interaction innovation presentation video) Theocacao: Writing Modern Copy for Product Pages (tags: writing marketing content business)

links for 2008-03-19

KPCB – iFund™ Initiative (tags: iphone startup money apple funding)

The ultimate killer widget

What’s the deal? Everyone’s all hype about widgets lately. While showering, I took a second to dream about what the ultimate killer widget would be if designed for yours truly. First of all, none of this web app widget stuff. I already have enough tabs open in my firefox, thank you. I’d much rather prefer [...]

links for 2008-03-17

Technology in emerging economies | Of internet cafés and power cuts | Economist.com (tags: Technology development internet education BoP) The prefab gets a makeover – Los Angeles Times (tags: architecture design prefab modernism) wundrbar (tags: search semantic tools textbased)

Online confessions

links for 2008-03-14

frontline: the persuaders: watch online | PBS (tags: marketing documentary Media)

if for some reason, you ever liked hillary

check this out. despicable.

The shelves at Trader Joe’s

I took this picture of the shelf (I guess that’s all you can really call it) while standing in the queue at Trader Joe’s. For the uninitiated, Trader Joe’s is a fabulous grocery store for people who want Whole Foods variety without the exorbitant price tag. sidenote: this is how I end up having spicy [...]