April 30th, 2007 by mdIn Winter quarter (Jan-Mar), Bob Sutton and I taught a small seminar titled Innovation in Complex Organizations. It was for masters students and we got a mix of engineers, cs, business school, and product design students. It turned out to be a wonderful experience and the students did extraordinary work on the projects (for GM, […]
2 Comments » April 30th, 2007 by mdAn interesting thing has happened. I am trying to put my cognitive behavioral therapy to work in this situation to unwind my automatic thoughts / storytelling software, but let me know what you think…
Historically, I get about 10% of my traffic from China. This is spread between Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Beijing. It’s been rock […]
April 26th, 2007 by mdA group of students in the Creating Infectious Action class I am co-teaching came up with a clever concept. They observed that Firefox penetration among non-geeks, non-technical folks depends heavily on the appeal of extensions and customization of the browser. Fortunately, there’s a ton of great extensions for Firefox. The students cleverly realized that the […]
April 24th, 2007 by mdI am involved in teaching two courses this quarter at Stanford. One is titled Creating Infectious Action which I co-teach with a wonderful group of faculty from academia and industry. It’s essentially a project-based class focused on why ideas or behaviors “spread” in the Gladwell-ian sense, and “stick” in the Heath-ian sense. We are holding […]
April 23rd, 2007 by mdA friend recommended GreenDimes to me the other day. It’s very cool. For about 10-cents per day ($36 per year), they will go out and remove your name and address from thousands of mailing lists that direct marketers purchase to send 75-90% of all the junk mail that you get. And they will plant one […]
April 13th, 2007 by mdI am torn. While I think what he said was terribly insulting and degrading, I am a pretty radical free speech advocate — even the ugly stuff. Ultimately, as a private owner of the radio stations, CBS gets to decide what kind of programming they put on. I think Imus sucks for so many other […]
April 2nd, 2007 by mdIf you like Caravaggio, and even if you aren’t sure if you do, I highly recommend The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr. It’s a really exciting story of the search for a long-missing painting by Caravaggio — The Taking of Christ — and it’s all true. There are lots of fun characters in the story, […]
April 2nd, 2007 by mdGoogle Analytics tells me that nearly 10% of the visitors to the site are from Shanghai. Forgive the spelling please — the only Chinese I know is phoenetic. I am so glad to meet you all even if it is only online. Tsieh tsieh for coming!
I had the pleasure of visiting Shanghai last […]
April 1st, 2007 by mdI went to the Body Art Expo today at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Wow.
Body Art is apparently the umbrella under which you find tattoos, piercings, and body modifications such as (I don’t know what the official names are) boring large holes in your ears, installing spikes under your skin that poke out […]
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