Posted in creativity, design, environment, imagination, innovation, inspiration on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Is it technically “leap” or “jump” – as in down the rabbit hole below Delancey Street? You’ve got 37 more days to back an incredible public works project known as the LowLine that promises to bring a year-round underground park to New York’s Lower East Side. The project envisions a re-purposing of a long-abandoned trolley [...]
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Posted in books, courage, creative process, creativity, innovation, writing, yoga on December 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Write about something that bothers you and nobody else.” ~ The Help by Kathryn Stockett The holiday slew of movies at the box office makes this one of my favorite times of year. I love going to the movies, watching movies on my couch, on a plane, or in an outdoor venue. One of my [...]
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Posted in art, books, business, comedy, creativity, innovation, inspiration, invention, theatre on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Comics say funny things and comedic actors say things funny.” ~ Ed Wynn via Carol Burnett, Happy Accidents Over the winter holidays I started reading the wonderful book Happy Accidents, a memoir by comedic actress Jane Lynch. At turns the book is hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. Jane has the incredible ability to make people feel [...]
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Posted in creativity, imagination, innovation, media, Muppet, Steve Jobs, tagged postaday2011 on October 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” ~ Steve Jobs from his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford I audibly gasped when I got the nytimes.com breaking [...]
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Posted in creativity, discovery, friendship, innovation, inspiration on August 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“We start off scared, and we stay scared until we’re done.” ~ Ed Catmull, President and Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios I wish someone would just eliminate acronyms like BAU (business as usual) and SOP (standard operating procedures). At various times in my life, I tried to live by someone else’s standards. I wince with [...]
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Posted in books, game, innovation, play on August 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
For several weeks, I’ve been combing my bookshelves for activities to incorporate into my LIM College class on social media marketing. I wanted games to drive home the information in unconventional, interactive ways. I went to my theatre books, my business books, and my books filled with writing exercises. Nothing seemed quite right. And then [...]
Posted in business, cooking, creativity, innovation on June 9, 2010 |
Yesterday I read the transcript of an interview between Brian Clark of Copyblogger and Jason Fried, Co-founder of 37Signals. The interview is part of a series that Brian is using to kick-off his initiative Lateral Action, a program to support would-entrepreneurs as they take the leap into their own businesses. Now that I’ve started Compass [...]
Posted in failure, innovation on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, Chris Brogan wrote about the value of having an on-line lab. Chris just launched his new travel blog (seperate from his main site) to experiment, try out some new ideas, play, and build another business. Chris also makes the points that labs transform failures into learning opportunities and invite us to continue rolling up [...]
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Posted in career, economy, innovation on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“If you’re serious about innovation, you have to get serious … and systematic … about forgetting. PERIOD.” ~ Tom Peters Tom Peters projects the exact message I need to hear, exactly when I need to hear it. I subscribe to his daily emails and each one gives me a little jolt. Sometimes he times them [...]
Posted in design, Examiner, innovation, product development on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Another great innovation interview over on Examiner. I had the extreme pleasure to connect with Ben Kaufman, Founder of quirky. quirky is for every person who has an idea for a product or service (and don’t we all?!) and isn’t quite sure how to start bringing it to life. Check out the interview here.
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