July 5th, 2007 by mdThere is a medium-sized list of things that I should do less. On the list is “eating butter.” However, when I saw a recipe in the NYT sunday magazine for homemade butter — alongside a compelling essay about one man’s experience with fatty, yellow heaven — I had to try it. So I just finished […]
5 Comments » June 3rd, 2007 by mdSeveral students in Creating Infectious Action (MSE288) at Stanford came up with a very cool way to explain design thinking to others by executing, and documenting by video, a rapid design process. The four students, Mada, Ana, Dot, and Mannan are masters students in the class which I co-teach. They captured a totally authentic look […]
May 29th, 2007 by mdMy good friend and former colleague Jeff Jordan just was named CEO of OpenTable, the online reservation agent for dining out. This is a huge coup for OpenTable and the beginning of a great new adventure for Jeff. I was very lucky to work with Jeff both at Disney back in the mid-1990s and then […]
May 25th, 2007 by mdI don’t know why feral pigs are so interesting. To me, the pictures of them lying next to their killers are oddly compelling. I wrote about Hogzilla a while back and saw this AP story on Drudgereport today (one of the best sites on earth.) Truly a shocking story and image. I can’t wait for […]
May 23rd, 2007 by mdRecently we had a good discussion of an interesting topic in Creating Infectious Action — a course I co-teach at Stanford. The conversation was about widgets and the unbundling of cool content from the url where it originated. Widgets — small, portable units that are essentially mini-windows onto an application or pieces of content — […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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