This is {why} we do it
July 28, 2010
Pledge to watch the movie over at WaitingForSuperman.com.
Infographic video made by the Creative animation studio Buck.
Pledge to watch the movie over at WaitingForSuperman.com.
Infographic video made by the Creative animation studio Buck.
You start to lose track of days when you are trying polyphasic sleeping. Remember when I was talking about all of the social norms you’re up against when trying non circadian sleeping habits? Well, they’re a lot more pervasive than I thought.
I think I finally got into a groove, but I’m not sure how I can hold this up for very much longer. Here are some initial thoughts about the experiment in alternative sleeping styles:
I’ll update you again if I continue with this experiment.
This is embarrassing, but I have to admit a remarkably cheesy thing about myself.
When you’re working on a somewhat crazy, new to the world idea, and your primary intention is to “make meaning” and to improve people’s lives, people doubt you a lot. “Why would I use that? That doesn’t make sense to me… Well, isn’t this just like Facebook? Or is this like Twitter or something? It’s never going to work. Why don’t you just go find a job?”
I call these people the “love-to-haters” or LTHs. If you’re an LTH, have fun working on someone else’s idea for the rest of your life, if you can hang on to it, that is. I sincerely hope that the idea you align yourself with truly matters and enriches people’s lives and yours. Most of the time, I am emboldened by these LTHs and try hard to explore ways that they could use Bettr@, but sometimes the aggravation they cause and the perverse impact on my psyche is just too high. So sue me, I get emotional.
OK, now on to the embarrassing confession. Sometimes when I get ground down by the LTHs, I have to watch my favoritest scene from my favoritest movie of all time, Gattaca. The music score, if you like it, is by Michael Nyman. Listen to the song “The Other Side”. Gives me chills everytime I listen to it or watch the scene and I feel like getting “back on the saddle”.
Sorry Ya’ll. I’ve been watching my repeat customers on my blog go down over the past few weeks as my posts have been less frequent. No excuse, I know, but I have been super busy with work (I’m taking 5 ID classes, including 3 workshops, and one B-school class, international business)
I thought I’d at least let friends and acquaintances know what I’ve been toiling on lately:
The other stuff that I’m inextricably tied to:
- the design research conference content committee– Finding speakers and workshop facilitators, defining the theme for next year’s conference.
Because I have too much going on, I had to drop Jeremy Alexis’ Problem Framing (I’ll take it next year). Sadly, I’ve also stepped down as organizer of the Chicago Futurist Meetup. It’s entirely possible that I could pick this up again if I have more time this summer.
As a heads up to ID folks, I am giving a lecturette on blogging at the Institute of Design on Thursday. I will be covering the basics of setting up a blog, why people should (maybe) blog, and Vince LaConte will be talking about wikis. And I might throw in a few other random tidbits. So, if you’re around, come. And eat the free food.