YakShaving

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

Month: May, 2009

Objectified screening at ID

A few weeks ago, I got the chance to see a private screening of Objectified at the Institute of Design by Director Gary Hustwit (director of Helvetica). The movie was spectacular. It had the same characteristic cinematography as Helvetica, and featured sweet tunes from El Ten. The movie featured Paola Antonelli (MOMA), Bangle (BMW), Moggridge/Brown/Kelley/Suri [...]

commit to making things [that enrich people's lives]

Obama, speaking at Georgetown: One of the changes that I would like to see — and I’m going to be talking about in this in weeks to come — is seeing our best and our brightest commit themselves to making things — engineers, scientists, innovators. For so long, we have placed at the top of [...]

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