April 2008
12 posts
May 1 Innovation Conference @ Stanford d.school →
[note: the conference is now at Hewlett 201 on the Stanford Campus]
[note 2: crossposting to planet because I’ve mentioned this to many folks at Mozilla, we’ve got a history of doing projects…
heading home →
rainy in tokyo Originally uploaded by John Lilly
great & productive, but fast, trip to tokyo — been raining all day — about to get on the plane from Narita & happy to be…
CSSnite in Ginza featuring Kohei! →
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I was very lucky to be able to see Kohei’s presentation to a room packed with people at the Ginza Apple Store here in Tokyo. And I have to say he did an…
The Opposable Mind, by Roger Martin →
This was a fine book — but not fantastic for me. Reminds me why I mostly don’t read business books. There are some good things to remember in this book — in particular, that models are always…
Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely →
Great, fun, behavioral economics book along the same lines as Stumbling Upon Happiness (itself a great, fun book). Ariely goes through a bunch of experiments that show that while people very…
what Asa said →
asa says it exactly right. good change! a bit more to do…
World Without End, by Ken Follet →
Giant thousand page novel about 14th century England society & the life of a small town — really a continuation of the story Follett started in The Pillars of the Earth, about building a…
helvetica →
I’ve long been meaning to watch Helvetica, a documentary about fonts, design, and modernism more generally, but also about the specifics of a typeface that many consider a culmination of…
heading to tokyo →
for a couple of days — am lucky to get to see Kohei give a talk at the Ginza Apple Store about Firefox 3 for web developers, then will spend a couple of days with the folks in the Mozilla Japan…
friends →
I’ve mentioned Adam before — he & I were in 7th grade together, a million years ago in Las Vegas. We were great friends at particularly itinerant parts of our lives, and the time we…
OK Go’s Andy Ross on Why Miro (and PCF) Matters →
They’re running a funding drive now:
Great for the Web! →
Congratulations to Joi (and to Larry, I’d wager), a very good friend who takes over as CEO of Creative Commons! Great news for CC to have Joi even more engaged in this.
