It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since I quit my full-time job to give independent consulting a try. In a nutshell, it was the best decision I’ve ever made. I plan on writing a longer post to wrap up the year, but in the meantime I wanted to invite you all [...]
Entries from August 12th, 2009
Who is Spencer Fry’s mentor?
August 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Career
[This post is part of a series on Mentors and Heroes] Spencer Fry is a partner and CEO of Carbonmade, an online portfolio website for creative professionals. He is also the founder of the design magazine Burstoid. Follow him on Twitter @spencerfry. Spencer Fry’s mentor is… Paul Fry, English Professor at Yale University How [...]
Tags:Career·Mentors and Heroes
Whit Hour – Week 2
August 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Whit Hour
Thank you so much to the 20 or so folks who showed up for the second week of Whit Hour — my new weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me. Join me next week on Sunday, August 16, 9-10pm [...]
Tags:Consulting·Education·Methodology·Prototyping·User Research·Whit Hour
Links from 5/14/2009 to 8/9/2009
August 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Linkage
Write When Inspired The Amanda Project Technology will allow us to become digital nomads Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research Is Your Organization An Umbrella or Mixing Bowl? How Easy It Is To Miss Related Posts: Links from 3/30/2008 to 4/1/2008 Recent Reads – 1/30/2010 Links from 3/6/2008 to 3/14/2008 Links from [...]
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What I did while Twitter was down today
August 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Pain, Twitter
Twitter had a Denial of Service Attack this morning, which affected its uptime all day today. Therefore I was forced to figure out what to do without it. Here’s what I came up with: I noted my frustration on Facebook I actually looked at my friends’ pages on Facebook I reached Inbox Zero in Google [...]
Tags:Pain·Productivity·Twitter
