2014 Bibliography
Unlike previous years, no big “You Must Read This!†books this year. Alas. But many enjoyable reads, particularly among the fiction, which was unusually heavy on the scifi/fantasy this...
View ArticleJob Search 2015
My role as Creative Director for New Products at Jawbone has been eliminated, so I’m once again searching for a new professional home. I’m looking for a VP/Creative Director/Product Design Lead/Head of...
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My Favorite Design Articles 2015
Giving Customers What They Want, The Book of Life Taste is a variable factor. Weâ€re very good at appreciating moves of taste in retrospect – but in advance we are so much less alive to the...
View ArticleMy Top 10 Albums 2015
The 90s are back! So many albums I listened to this year were overtly 90s influenced (Sprinter, Dry Food) and some quite good ones (The Magic Whip, Star Wars) from bands who started in the 90s. One...
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FICTION ★ The Mechanical, Ian Tregillis Robot Futures, Illah Reza Nourbakhsh If Then, Matthew De Abaitua Time Salvager, Wesley Chu Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson Red Sparrow, Jason Matthews A Darker...
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My Favorite Design Articles 2016
Crafting The First Mile of Product, Scott Belsky, Medium A failed first mile cripples a new product right out of the gate. Your product may get lots of downloads or sign-ups, but very few customers get...
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My Favorite Albums 2016
Same criteria as in previous years: replay-ibility and few skipped tracks. All links to Spotify. 10. Head Carrier, Pixies Doesn’t really feel like a Pixies album, but has enough Frank Black mojo to be...
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Fiction I, Robot, Isaac Asimov Dark Matter, Blake Crouch The Destructives, Matthew De Abaitua The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel ★ Central Station, Lavie Tidhar ★...
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I’m looking for a VP/Creative Director/Product Design Lead/Head of Product role that lets me do what I enjoy and do very well: lead teams to design and launch products. Ideally, this role would be in...
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FICTION The Passage, Justin Cronin American War, Omar El Akkad Falling Man, Don DeLillo The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin The Name of The Wind, Patrick Rothfuss Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders All...
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