Uh oh … Update from China
May 23rd, 2007 by mdI am not sure if I feel proud, sad, nervous, or what. I just hope they don’t take it out on the nice ladies in the dumpling factory that I wrote about.
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Creative destruction is good. May 23rd, 2007 by md 0 Comment »Rusted Root, Israel K., and Joni Mitchell
May 19th, 2007 by mdWhen I was in Hawaii, I discovered some great musicians. Check out Rusted Root, and Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. I especially like Hawai’i 78 by Israel K. and Send Me on My Way covered by Rusted Root.
I also have been overplaying Joni Mitchell’s version of Both Sides Now, from Dreamland. Thanks, Todd for turning me onto that [...]
United Arab Emirates adventure – Abu Dhabi and Dubai
May 19th, 2007 by mdMy colleagues Bob, Perry, and I went for a week to the Higher College of Technology in UAE to teach a short seminar on Innovation and Product Design to a group of students and executives. It was a long, but really fun trip. The students were about 80% nationals, the remainder from elsewhere in the [...]
Innovation seminar final projects
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, [...]
What’s happening in China?
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 [...]
Firefox4life.com
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 [...]
Creating Infectious Action through Social Enterprise
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 [...]
Green Dimes is cool
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 [...]
Don Imus
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 [...]
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
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, [...]