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Jott is the hot new DIY personal secretary via your cell phone. It is a free mobile/online service that enables you to take down voice notes and memos to your Jott inbox or other applications (e.g. Facebook status, Google Calendar, notorious Twitter, Gmail, etc) by talking to a recorder which takes the message and converts [...]
If the web is turning 2.0, why aren’t browsers? Well, one is. I just bumped into Flock today and decided to try it out, as I seemed to have fit all of its symptoms. Am I a shareaholic? Yes. Do I always want to be connected? Yes. Will I appreciate drag and drop uploading and [...]
“If you want to get a good idea of whether I’d make a good employee, drop by my house and take a look around.” — Malcolm Gladwell
Many companies place ‘creative stimuli’ like pool tables in their offices to inspire remarkable ideas, but what actually materializes as a result? Whether your office is made up of [...]
I love spending weekends up at my parents’ place to re-energize my entire being. There’s time to enjoy home-cooked meals, nature, and undisturbed sleeping in (no honking, sirens, jackhammers, roommates). In addition, I spend a lot of time catching up on reading (blogs, mostly) and knowledge building. And best of all, it’s far away from [...]
It’s an hour long lecture, but pretty interesting… I could take a lesson or two from Merlin Mann, creator of Inbox Zero, as I have over 28,500 unfiltered, unarchived emails in my work inbox. (no joke)
This is his Google Talk presentation about Inbox Zero that I found off of YouTube. Sorry for the audio/visual not [...]
Because good ideas deserve to be recognized and good design should be impossible to ignore. Because in this message-muddled world, there are still some lines that can catch my eye and win me over. Because the world has never been changed by indifference. Because there are people, places, products and punchlines that have inspired me- and could very likely inspire you too. Because I still need a place to release some personal revelations, raves and rants. Because it's just too damn hard to keep it all to myself.