2014 in Five Words
This Tweet is the perfect cap to a wonderful year at The Grommet.
Product Design Fail: Cuisinart
So I’m making coffee in a hotel room and the little brewing machine has clear instructions printed right on top. I sail along until I get to the instruction…
A handful of surprises in a Japanese home
The time-tested ways to get a quick exposure to a new country are to go grocery shopping and, if you are lucky enough, be invited to stay…
Real Deal Road Trip No. 17: Cambridge Typewriter Co., Inc.
In the recent process of selling our suburban house, the downsizing was epic–leaving no possibility of just mindlessly packing stuff up and dealing with it later. Further, with five people…
Real Deal Road Trip No. 16: AB Printing in Charlestown, MA
Something that caught a ton of attention in my last blog post was a casual snapshot of a family vacation journal I was in the process of…
Four expert tips for learning to see the future
When I worked for Meg Whitman at Keds, in a quasi cool-hunter role, I took it upon myself to teach her how I spotted trends. At the…
Real Deal Road Trip No. 15: The Ponzi House
Being in our final three weeks of living in Lexington, Massachusetts my husband and I seized a golden opportunity to tour the Charles Ponzi (of Ponzi Scheme…
Mother, (don’t) leave those kids alone.
Since we sold our suburban house and started disassembling it for the upcoming move to smaller quarters, I’ve been handling virtually all our possessions. In the…
Can Design Save Silicon Valley?
This post was originally published in the Harvard Business Review. The tech titans of Silicon Valley are actively circling the strategic value of design.…
Real Deal Road Trip #14: Visiting Japanese Ryokan
There’s a risk to writing publicly about a foreign country based on a short stay or vacation. I once learned that the hard way after I…
