Check out the Asian Film Archive and European Film Archives.

Visual analysis of ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.

Interacting with Inner and Outer Sonic Complexity: from Microsound to Soundscape Composition (video).

Meditation Correlated With Structural Changes In The Brain.

Using Bamboo to Fight Climate Change.

Digital Video Fragments, Flowing as if Liquid: A Chat with Robert Seidel.

Soda carbonation solutions for home.

Mapping human development in America.

Immersive videogames make players feel like their best selves. Why not give them real problems to solve?

Study: To Cut Emissions, Cut Parking Spots.

Music Control Meets Web Code Goodness: App for iOS, Soon OSC+MIDI Everywhere?

A Simpler Page: designing for tablets.

Create your own generative art with Silk.

Twitter’s response to WikiLeaks subpoena should be the industry standard.

Social networks create their own regional dialects.

The mysteries of kisses.

Musical chills related to brain dopamine release.

How to pick the perfect brand name.

Paul Graham on tablets

How an RC airplane buzzed the Statue of Liberty, with no arrests

Use your iPhone/iPod/iPad with Max/MSP or Pure Data with Fantastick

The New York Times introduces the evolution of the hyperlink.

Mystery surrounds cyber missile that crippled Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions.

A Waste of Money and Time; Bruce Schneier on airport security measures.

Building an Iconic Sound: Squarepusher.

There Will Be Blood: the G.O.P. is just not interested in helping a Democrat govern.

That Spunky Sound 0.12 particle synthesizer.

Why I Left My Publisher in Order to Publish a Book, by Douglas Rushkoff and Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known by Mark Hurst

Ten principles for good design by Dieter Rams

Journalism in the Age of Data (video)

Ten Things I Have Learned by Milton Glaser

Top 5 Smartphone Apps for Buying Local

Getting Made The Scorsese Way

How Ink Is Made (video)

Oxo Good Grips Designers Take on Tablet Magazines.

How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?

Apple to xplatform developers: We’re no longer suicidal.

Create Your Own Virtual Instruments With Maize Sampler v2.0.

New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer: eat organic, drink filtered water, avoid plastic containers.

Dear nerd, start a nerd sash with nerd merit badges (nerd).

SKTCH is an interesting generative drawing iPhone app.

The Big Bang Was an Explosion OF Space, Not IN Space.

New Reverse Vending Machine Pays You to Recycle,

Interview with David Toop, one of our favorite music writers.

The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books.

Why Funnel Marketing Doesn’t Work.

Uncommon Act of Design: The Secret of Getting Kids to Eat Veggies? Move the Salad Bar.

Guerrilla gardeners use candy machines to sell seed bombs.

The Progress of the Platform.

Transportation secretary announces “Sea-Change” for american transport: Bikes!

The sulphur compounds that litter the surface of Mars may contain the signature of life.

Consuming Smarter: Fly less often, eat less red meat and dairy, drive a small car.

The Institute for Human Centered Design store.

NASA finds shrimp-like creature, jellyfish beneath antarctic ice sheet.

Fox Vs Duck micro game app for iPhone/iPod Touch.

Novothink solar surge iPhone & iPod Touch charging case.

Thermopower waves: MIT scientists discover new way to produce electricity.

Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advise on stimulus transparency.

A loot valued at $20 million lies off the coast of Staten Island, and Ken Hayes is on the hunt for the sunken silver bullion.

Demolishing density in Detroit: can farming save the motor city?

Whales, like trees, slow warming.

With artificial photosynthesis, a bottle of water could produce enough energy to power a house.

Books in the age of the iPad.

LastHistory graphs all your Last.fm listening.

Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work. Buy the book or PDF.

The doormat, the jerk and the lizard brain.

Livid Instruments’ new Builder is a line of DIY parts that make it easy for users to design their own USB MIDI control surfaces and devices using buttons, knobs, faders, and talkback LEDs.

Shifting Identities: From Consumer to Networked Creator.

NOBY NOBY BOY for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, from the creator of Katamari Damacy.

The Vitesse D7HG is for those who are looking for a great bike for urban commuting at a good value.

Research says users will pay for content online, with a few catches.

Nanoloop For The iPhone.

Robert Henke, aka Monolake shares his custom Max for Live devices.

How to dispose of old electronics in a responsible way.

Top 7 Best Green iPhone Apps.

Ira Glass on Storytelling (YouTube): part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.

Design and Meaning: an interview with Nathan Shedroff.

Self-Destructing Bacteria Could Be the Key to Better Biofuels.

Incredible ‘Garbage City’ Rises Outside of Cairo.

How to protect your ideas in the digital age: Don’t. Build a reputation as someone who creates great ideas, sometimes on demand. Or as someone who can manipulate or build on your ideas better than a copycat can.

The practice of hanging out is consistently demonized by educationally-minded folks as a waste of time. Yet, it is in that space where youth learn to navigate social situations, make sense of impression management, and develop the social skills necessary to be productive adults.

A new year brings a bounty of hope—for new attitudes, new projects, new directions. In the past year, my intentions were to play more live shows and focus on finishing select tracks to my satisfaction. Mission accomplished.

Rather than make predictions or resolutions, here are some of the things on my plate and/or on the horizon for the year ahead (not all related to this site, FWIW): taking delivery of a blinky, new monome grayscale 64; composing generative pieces using Nodal, Ableton Suite 8 and Max for Live; finishing up a new EP for commercial release; posting more free podcast mixes; turning my generative sketches into fully interactive works; selling original prints and artwork; reading J.G. Ballard‘s complete works and making a dent in my reading list; devoting more time to my Geometry Studio, Sympathy for the Robots and The Silent Stars projects; developing some ideas into a viable, sustainable business; brewing some homemade beer; eating fresh, local cuisine; staying more plugged in and chilled out. Opa!

We are all mutants say scientists.

Books to read now, from Seed magazine.

Forget design thinking and try hybrid thinking.

Human Centered Design Toolkit from IDEO.

Spirograph, spirographs, spirography.

Get your Philip K. Dick collection boxed set from The Library of America and save $30.

Researchers have imaged single molecules in unprecedented detail, showing the chemical bonds that hold them together.

Camera from Athens: the most artistic vacation photos you’ve never taken.

How freelancers can use active listening to improve business.

Functioning Form: Design at Facebook.

Design Tales: Designing a successful plastic pint glass.

Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs

A short manifesto on the future of attention.

The mystery of Times New Roma.

Finalists for the 2009 James Dyson Award.

Lessons from slime mold: how to survive and thrive in ever-changing organizational environments.

Top twenty finalists of ReBurbia, a suburban design competition.

Growing ideas in the garden of innovation.

Photos of the last suppers of inmates on death row in the USA.

The Font-as-Service.

Bruce Handy on Mad Men.

Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland.

5 Reasons your marketing plan will fail.

New editions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series let you create your own cover art.

An investigation by The Smoking Gun unmasks the leader of Pranknet and the miscreants behind a year-long wave of phone call criminality.

Nathan Shredoff has released a series of free syllabi and teaching materials to help instructors teach students key topics for the future.

Learn logo design from top brands.

Taking Steps toward zero waste.

Olympus announces LS-11, a compact digital audio recorder.

We love (and wish we could afford) Aether’s jackets.

Design Ignites Change promotes and encourages talented high school and college students across the country to use design thinking and innovation to create messages for, and solutions to, pressing social problems.

Complete Yale courses now on iTunes U.

Eros, a short video by Tom Geraedts sports some awesome motion graphics.

The role of side projects in entrepreneurial success has a rich history in the United States.

A roundup of software art for the iPhone.

Travel in style with Patagonia’s MLC® (Maximum Legal Carry-On) Burrito suit bag.

Worn Free resurrects the coolest T-Shirts of all time.

The Big Picture remembers Apollo 11.

Was Moore’s Law Inevitable? by Kevin Kelly

Consumers get paid to reduce their emissions.

The fifth edition of The Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt is now available.

Michael Bay as Generative Art: Explosion Action Painting with oF.

An essay against Situationism.

Open Atrium is a customizable, open-source team portal.

Music Made from a Tree.

Why We Need a Globally-Recognized Unit of “Green”

Managers Embrace Design Thinking, Designers Reject It.

Starting a Design Studio In a Downturn: Part 1: Taking Leaps, Part 2: The First 15 Weeks, Part 3: When There’s No There There

The Old Solutions Have Become the New Problems: The new rules ask, “Who are you? What do you need? How can I help?”

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson.

No Lifeguard On Duty is the name of this beautiful photographic series of abandoned swimming pools by J Bennett Fitts.

The Feast Conference gathers the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating world-shaking change.

The Forces of User Experience, an expansion on Garrett’s The Elements of User Experience.

“The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful.” Paul Hawken’s 2009 Commencement Address at the University of Portland.

Open Emu is like having a giant visual performance synth made from the tasty innards of classic games.

When companies try to come up with new ideas, they too often look only where they always look.

What Makes Us Happy?

Futurespeak: Shane Hope’s keywords defined.

Gary Hamel on managing Generation Y.

The evidence is growing that privately owned, consumer-driven, small-scale, geographically distributed renewables could deliver a 100% green-energy future faster and cheaper than big power projects alone.

The Sears Tower is going green.

How does our language shape the way we think? by Lera Boroditsky

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s video report from their alien adventure film, Paul

The Dirty Dozen: Top 12 Foods to Buy Organic

2009 Penguin Design Awards

• 50% of all work is sub-par or unremarkable, i.e. upholding the status quo.
• 45% of the remainder tends to exist for shallow issues only, i.e. as decoration, current fashion or surface styling only.
• 5% is great and to be appreciated and recommended.

YMMV.

Watch, discover and discuss independent, foreign and classic films.

Fluxx is a card game with ever-changing rules.

Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living, from the experts at TreeHugger.com

Innovation is a result — not a process.

Warp20 box set celebrates 20 years of warped goodness.

Photos of Edwardians, or “Teddy Boys”, by Ben Watts.

Mad libs official website.

OneLessOffice suite of products by Heckler Design.

Architecture of energy, by Lebbeus Woods

As the focus of design shifts from the production of finite goods to a practice of experimentation, ideas take precedence over products.

Humanoid Sound Systems releases Scanned Synth Pro for Mac.

Nokia phone charges by drawing energy out of thin air.

Brian Eno interview from Mojo magazine.

If you can’t buy it legally, of course you’ll download it: Staggered film releases no longer work in a global economy and are to blame for the rise of pirate websites.

How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules, by Malcolm Gladwell.

7 tips for a good portfolio.

Glitch Sequencer: Cellular automaton based MIDI sequencer.

Font Squirrel offers handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.

LOST labels for your DHARMA Initiative needs.

Wolfram|Alpha intends to be a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.

Mega-Regions and High-Speed Rail, by Richard Florida.

Pacemaker is a revolutionizing music player and mixer with all the features you need to deejay anywhere, anytime.

Rare Book Room as an impressive collection of hi-res images of full ancient books,

Peruse pics from the First 100 Days in the Official White House Flickr Photostream.

25 years of logos from Duffy & Partners, one of our favorite agencies.

Rickshaw Bagworks’ Large Zero Messenger is cut and sewn from only four rectangles of fabric for zero manufacturing material waste.

Song of the Vine, an illustrated history of wine.

Skip Hulu Commercials with this nifty Greasemonkey script.

Five Ways To Market Yourself During A Recession.

jQuery Style is a resource for all things jQuery.

The history and cover art of science fiction published by Penguin Books from 1935 to 1977.

Dork Yearbook features pictures from yesteryear of geeks and the computers they love.

The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) is a global community of people working at the intersection of communication design and the built environment.

Frog Design envisions a smart, multi-function ID card.

We know more about outer space than the planet beneath our feet, but an ambitious plan to scan deep beneath the US will change all that.

Communicate the benefit of the benefit, ie. the emotional well-being the product or service provides.

The different kinds of people that there are. Funny.

If the newspapers think they’re such hot shit, they should make their own Hulu and stop whining.

A long, rambly exploration of the state of computing with no real conclusion…, by Steven Frank of Panic software.

U2′s Linear is a short-film to accompany their latest release. Yay, Anton Corbijn.

A court rules your MySpace page isn’t private. So, don’t post anything you wouldn’t want published in your home town newspaper without your consent.

Ten graphic design paradoxes.

Paul Frank’s partnership with Bugaboo = two great tastes that go great together.

Denon’s new DP-200USB turntable rips vinyl straight to MP3; no computer required to record and encode, just to edit.

The secrets of making a vinyl record (video).

The secret, social lives of bacteria; they talk to one-another.

Top 10 Myths About Freelancers.

Free Nodal Generative Sequencer, now multi-platform.

Herman Miller Replaces the Sample Catalogue With a Smart Web Site; someday we’ll be able to afford such brilliance.

He Charted the Moon Before Galileo, But You’ve Probably Never Heard of Him.

Jenny Holzer’s Protect Protect Show.

The Unreleased Recordings by Hank Williams.

Wrong Tomorrow is a database of provable predictions.

Novation announces SL Mk II; sweetness.

Fantastic design work followed by fantastic increases in newspaper circulation, by Polish newspaper designer Jacek Utko. His advice: “Give power to designers.” Right on!

Get Satisfaction as a Protection Racket.

A 10-month investigation by a team of researchers at the University of Toronto uncovered a broad Chinese espionage scheme that reached into foreign embassies, news services and even the office of the Dalai Lama.

The Top 5 Greenest Laptops.

Experimental Geography Reading List, by Rhizome contributing editor Marisa Olson.

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism, by Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.

Trees: More than just carbon sinks – How Tree Aid, a UK-based charity, helps poor rural communities fight poverty, become self-reliant and help the environment.

He may seem like Mister Rogers. But in a revealing interview, the travel guru Rick Steves shares his daring views on Iran and terrorism, spoiled Americans and the best places to smoke pot in Europe.

Watching

Hot Fuzz (via Netflix), Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express and The Dark Knight were all terrific. I’ve found I like the combination of action and comedy in my summer blockbusters, thank you. Flight of the Conchords and The Mighty Boosh were also enjoyable.

I’m halfway into Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn on my iPod Touch. The topics of space vs. place and placemaking have interested me for a while, and this 6-part, 3-hour series is a nice intro to Brand’s book. A lot of the concepts relate to the fields of interaction-, experience- and visual-design.

Reading

I finally read the Watchmen graphic novel, in part because of all the recent buzz. I found it a bit heavy about 2/3 of the way in, but I stuck-it-out and think I appreciate it more now that I’m finished. I didn’t really care for the inking and coloring style, which seems very old-fashioned. But, its multi-threaded narrative (a single page might be alternating frames between two or three different story lines), anti-hero angle and outsider-as-Ãœbermensch themes are likely the reason for its long-term appeal (that’s my take on it, anyway).

I decided to finish the His Dark Materials trilogy, so I’m reading The Amber Spyglass. As before, Pullman’s poetic style and literary references have rekindled my interest in John Milton, William Blake, and the Imagination.

As always, I’m fitting-in some readings Joseph Campbell and design wisdom nuggets for good measure .

Making

I’m happy to be working again on a Mac Pro at my day job. Mac OS X Leopard is lovely, and I’m pleased to have my favorite apps on-hand: Adobe CS3, Evernote, Transmit, Coda, Adium, Quinn (shhh). Still, thanks to bloody ActiveX in some of our web-based tools, I’m probably going to invest in Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion. Ah, compatibility.

After finishing-up some recent music sketches, I’ve decided to take a break from sequencing for a bit. Every few years I feel like I’m making the same tracks as before, so I dream-up a new challenge. Do/don’t call it a side project! My intention is to record with the acoustic instruments we have around the house—guitar, ukulele, oboe, violin, trumpet, piano, drums/rattles/shakers/toys to name a few. I’ll probably still arrange and mix-down using Live. I have no idea where this project will take me—but that’s the idea, innit?

Anyways, cheerio.

As Marketing Specialist, I am responsible for promoting Indiana Tech to current and future students, alumni and the general public through various media channels, including advertising, printed marketing materials, direct mail and online content. This includes managing the overall ‘brand identity’ of Indiana Tech through art and photo direction, copywriting, the use of layout, color palette, typography and other elements of visual communication.

I work with the Director of Marketing, another designer and the webmaster, as well as directly with various VPs, department heads and staff. My main focus is on designing materials for the College of Professional studies (CPS), our accelerated program for non-traditional students, as well as the Offices of Institutional Advancement (IA) & Alumni Relations.

For CPS, I develop and produce materials for the communications plan to target future students; the annual course catalog and bi-annual schedule books; brochures and info sheets for the various degree programs and special events; displays, promotional items and so on.

For IA, I have designed the annual President’s report; numerous invitations, posters and postcards for regular alumni events such as the wine and beer tastings. I also contribute articles and layouts for our quarterly Trends magazine, take photographs of campus activities and special events, and so on.

For the university website, I am currently focused on redesigning the site structure, information architecture and navigation design.

2. What problems do you as an Individual face with your job?

I strive for strategic design, which is driven by business objectives and metrics for success (whenever possible). Sometimes, the strategy for a project isn’t clear—or at least communicated—so it can take a bit of digging to determine what the outcomes and best deliverable needs to be. Other times, I’m not included in the initial discussion but called-in afterwards to produce something, when my being engaged earlier might lead to a different or better solution. Other projects come up with short notice, requiring a quick turnaround without the necessary planning and discussion.

A bigger challenge for most contemporary designers is that while more people have access to digital tools to do their own desktop publishing, they often don’t understand the complexities of visual communication, advertising and marketing strategy, professional printing and web design. They often think just in terms of what they themselves can do—with Word or PowerPoint and their laser printer, for example—rather than with the proper design software and the capabilities of a commercial printer. This requires being a ‘brand steward’ and sometimes having to manage projects created by others that might not be of the same quality as other university materials or mesh visually or conceptually with the ‘bigger picture’.

3. Why did you choose this field and would you choose it again?

In college, I attended art school and earned a BFA with a double major in painting and computer graphics. I sought work as a graphic designer, because I have always had a strong interest in the various elements of communication, both in print and on the screen. I worked for 4.5 years in advertising at a newspaper and 6.5 at a design and marketing agency before joining Indiana Tech, now for 1.5 years. Along the way, I have picked up knowledge, skills and experience in marketing campaigns, print and web production and public relations.

For me, design and marketing is about communication; connecting an organization with its audience and aiding in the exchange of information and services. Put simply, I help people find their voice and tell their stories using the best tools. Given these things, I would choose it again.

4. In what ways do you market our University?

The overall brand identity for CPS is meant to be clean, contemporary, focused and relevant. Photos show adult students in classroom and work environments, either actively working or facing the camera to show professionalism, confidence and optimism. The use of space, color palette, typography, ink and paper and other elements are all meant to convey simplicity and openness. The intention is to differentiate Indiana Tech from other universities and position CPS as practical, accessible and innovative.

• We have a communications plan ‘funnel’ for future students that includes weekly emails, phone calls and printed brochures which feature our academic choices, the convenience and flexibility of our program and address overcoming the challenges of earning a degree (cost, age, scheduling).
• For corporate contacts, we produce a brochure, posters with tear-off BRM cards and short-run fliers and postcards to promote info sessions and ‘lunch-and-learn’ meetings.
• For events such as education fairs, we have prominent standup floor displays and table runners.
• For current students, we produce degree-specific info sheets and brochures, annual course catalogs and bi-annual schedule books.
• For new degree programs, we produce an info sheet and brochure, posters, newspaper ads and inserts, magazine and web ads.
• For new locations, we produce info fliers, newspaper ads and inserts, magazine and web ads.
• For online advertising, we run banner ads on local websites and Google AdWords for key search phrases.
• For lead generation, we have an agency which collects and tracks online leads and custom phone numbers.
• For electronic media, we have an agency that handles creative production and media buying for TV and radio and some newspaper and magazine ads.

5. What means of marketing do you prefer? What works?

I prefer cross media campaigns, which combine multiple channels with a coordinated message, e.g. direct mail, newspaper inserts and online ads, all with a consistent look and shared message. Print has a large capacity to convey info, but competing for a person’s attention can be difficult. Differentiation is key to standing out; in their pile of mail or weekly newspaper inserts, on TV or the radio, signs on the road or bulletin board at work. Ads in newspapers, magazines and online are easy to ignore unless they’re placed where people are actively looking for such info already. Ultimately people have to be receptive to attending college and earning their degree, so part of the task is to provide the key info they’re looking for and overcome the reasons for not taking the next step. Everything I produce contains that action prompt to take the next step.

Find your passion

• people work with you because of you
• passion is magnetic
• make sure your passion is transparent

Create buzz

• develop a position (differentiated)
• have the confidence to promote and market yourself
• people like parties

Plant Seeds

• nobody throws out books
• red envelopes: 10″x13″, stand out in the mail
• promotion is a great way to plant seeds
• be clever in how you promote: make a deficit a positive
• leverage projects and people to reach the next level

Making connections

• strategic partnerships with someone who knows how to do it; can open doors
• overflow from other firms with projects that aren’t big enough for them or they’re too busy for
• co-promotion opportunities to pay for it, e.g. the PUNC’T poster project: raised money, everyone benefited
• do web audits as a ‘value add’ when meeting with a prospective client

Client focus

• speak their language
• listen
• work harder to earn their business

Learn from your mistakes

• debrief after each success and failure
• know your audience
• say ‘no’ to projects that aren’t a good fit

Never be complacent

• know what others are doing
• market when times are good and bad (constantly build your pipeline)
• be selective of the work you take on
• be willing to embrace change

• How do you solve your client’s business problem?
• Can you articulate how your work helped a client meet key goals?
• Can you present yourself as a strategic thinker?

• Put it in writing
  • What do you provide? For whom? And how do you do it?
  • Define your strategy statement: how and why
• All design briefs should have business objectives as well as design objectives
• What do people want (job satisfaction)?
  1. Positive relationships
  2. Interesting work
  3. Opportunities for learning
  4. others: opportunities for advancement, innovation, meaningful & fulfilling work, participation in decision making
• Complacency
  • Feeling unimportant or uninspired
  • lack of healthy competition and challenge
  • Establish an environment where individuals can compete with themselves and work with each other

[this was a last-minute substitution for another session. I had a mixed reaction to her presentation, because a lot of the concepts seemed basic to me. Also, she kept mentioning how hung-over she was from the "seven gin-and-tonics" she consumed while partying the previous night. Other people seemed to glean value from it, but by the end I wished I had gone to another session.]

[this was an engaging interview, so I didn't take many notes as I was busy listening]

Three things he’s learned

1. Most clients are scared you’ll embarrass them and not listen to them: diligently listening will take care of a lot of their concerns
2. Let them tire themselves out
   • ala Muhammad Ali’s ‘Rope-a-dope‘
   • show them something to let them work their energy off, then pull out the better option
3. Understand the cast of characters in a meeting who have their own politics, agenda

Business Development: send out 15 copies of a favorite project

• 5 to the press
• 5 to current clients
• 5 to people you don’t know but think might be interested

Behance Network is not about creativity but productivity

• distinguish urgent vs. important: have 2 lists
• generate ideas in moderation: they can be addicting
• spend energy on staying organized: creativity * organization = impact
• organize with a bias to action
• the action method
  • action steps
  • back burner items: must review regularly or you may never do them
  • reference items: pile up, usually don’t get used again

• measure a meeting in action steps
• don’t just meet because it’s monday
• publicize productivity
• advertise action to yourself
• create a back burner ritual: go through your list once a month to convert to action items
• have a culture of capturing action steps
  • write it down
  • go around and list items
• reference items
  • save sparingly
  • seldom actionable
  • tag with action step
• attraction breeds loyalty
• prioritize projects visually: make an energy line and list current actions
  • extreme (only 2 or 3 items)
  • high
  • medium
  • low
  • idle (inactive)
• create action areas: a communal place to collect actions that anyone can do
• capture action everywhere, then forget about it

community

• seek cross-pollination
• share ideas liberally
  • others hold you to your actions
  • can get refined through discussion and iteration
• share ownership of ideas
• fight your way to breakthroughs
  • more terrain will be explored
  • push past comfort level
• don’t be burdened by consensus: not everyone can be happy without mediocrity setting in

leadership

• leaders talk last (silence the visionary)
  • rather than first, where everyone panders to their ideas
  • engage everyone
  • start with questions instead of answers
• value the team’s immune system
  • create a time to debate
  • cynics add value too
• take the team’s temperature
  • cool & calm
  • pressured but positive
  • pressured, turning negative
  • stressed
• always move the ball forward
• seek restraints
• judge based on initiative (not experience level)
• present yourself (overcome the stigma)
  • play on your strengths
  • be notable
• unique is opportune