There is no glamour in founding a company
Daily Grommet made the final cut for an upcoming “All Things Media” venture capital forum in NY. Happy days. I had to go to a preparatory…
The Social Media Education of Joanne–Part One–Social Networks
We have a new co-founder at our startup, Daily Grommet. Joanne is world-class. But she is has a very common gap among executives of a certain…
Like Mother, Like Son
My oldest boy, Dane, is studying design at Carnegie Mellon. You’d think having a industrial designer mother would have made that a natural. But when he…
Something I never heard from a CEO before, and other miscellany from SEED
37 Signals hosted the third annual SEED Conference last Friday in Chicago: it lived up to its commitment of being all about design, entrepreneurship and inspiration.…
My friends are turning into Amandas
I was thrilled to see one of my all-time-favorite college interns, Amanda Mooney, quoted in the current Business Week cover story: Beyond Blogs; what business needs…
IDEO at Nantucket
I’m just back from the Nantucket Conference. It included two sessions on design thinking, and it was fun to trade notes about the design “biz” with…
Twittering, glittering, on Facebook
I’ve noticed that the type of friend feed status updates I get on Facebook are much more interesting when they get posted via Twitter. People update…
Trust the rope
Industrial designers can’t help but evaluate any product’s ability to do its job. Sure we trust airplanes like anyone else, but we still manage to gnash…
What I miss about Ireland
I stumbled on a very visual and funny post that Guy Kawasaki wrote about a recent trip to Dublin. It was light and entertaining, and inspired…
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