I spent DĂa de los Muertos remembering people.
The van got closer and we could see Rob’s face. He was smiling. This was his gift to us on the last day of the summer.
Last week I was eating dinner in a Los Angeles restaurant when a woman at the next table got something stuck in her throat and began to choke.
“Don’t come in here spreading your mess.” When I was a kid I’d sometimes go to my friends’ houses after school or basketball practice. Every single one of my friends’ mothers...
This morning I met online with three different ed tech founders. I was the shark in the tank, and they were making their pitches.
Ornamentation can be beautiful, but the modernist followers of Viollet-le-Duc and Sullivan inquired of any decoration: “Does it work?”
One of the most inspiring things to me is watching a person love what they do so much that they study the task relentlessly and practice it until it becomes an art form all their own.
Curiosity is the stuff of the hero’s journey, which also often invites the protagonist to do something they are not supposed to do.
Plus, more musings on That Thing In The Desert.
I have attended and presented at conferences for decades, but last week I did something new. I went to Burning Man.