YakShaving

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

Month: September, 2009

Getting better at stuff: Not just for poindexters anymore

This article is also available for comment in the BettrAt blog. I had a conversation with Hugh (the associate dean of the Institute of Design) today about his son Morley’s high school which sounds completely amazing and reminded me of this article in Wired I read recently, called “Making Geeks Cool Could Reform Education” I’ve [...]

NatureMill Composter day 1

I used to squeeze juice out of this Green Star GS3000 juicer about 5 years ago when I first started working but then the disposal of the fruit and vegetable remnants just got to be too much. I felt guilty throwing out all of that good, organic waste. So last week, I bought a naturemill [...]

Hey boys and girls! It’s “juice time”…

Whoops, looks like someone didn’t get the memo. You tell ‘em, Randall (Rothenberg, from an AdAge essay): And not a moment too soon. For as any moment’s glance at a Nasdaq chart will show, a new form of communication has risen up to turn every prejudice about marketing upside down. A mere eight decades after [...]