In my April contribution to The Pastry Box Project, Who Do We Think We Are?, I share my frustration with the rampant intellectual bullying I have observed in our community, and how I’ve overcome my own tendency to contribute to it. Now we’ve all heard the saying about the cobbler’s children having no shoes, and [Keep Reading…]
Archives for 2014
My 10 Principles for Designing Organizations on Huffington Post
Last month I got the green-light all the way from the top to publish my writing on Huffington Post. I don’t know the exact numbers, but according to comScore in August 2013, Huffington Post had upwards of 46 million monthly U.S. unique visitors and 78 million monthly global unique visitors. That’s about 3 times the [Keep Reading…]
My 10 Principles for Designing Experiences Applied to Designing Organizations
It’s hard to believe that it was way back in 2011 when I first began giving my presentation Design Principles: The Philosophy of UX. Three years later, I’ve given that talk at more than a dozen conferences around the globe, from Hong Kong to Bogotá to Tel Aviv and beyond. It has been a tremendous [Keep Reading…]
Who Gets Billion-Dollar Acquisitions?
Oculus VR acquired by Facebook for $2 Billion in 2014 WhatsApp acquired by Facebook for $19 Billion in 2014 AirWatch acquired by VMware for $1.54 Billion in 2014 Nest acquired by Google for $3.2 Billion in 2013 SoftLayer acquired by IBM for $2 Billion in 2013 Tumblr acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 Billion in 2013 [Keep Reading…]
Season 2 of Designing Yourself
Guys, so much awesome stuff is going on, I just can’t contain myself! You know Paul McAleer and I host a podcast called Designing Yourself, right? On March 3, we finally released our first episode of 2014, titled Good Intentions and featuring an AMAZING interview with Gina Trapani. Gina is the founder of Lifehacker, Todo.txt [Keep Reading…]
Writing for Huffington Post
A month ago today, I flew up to San Francisco to attend the Wisdom 2.0 Conference. Though it is now in its fifth year and had more than 2,000 people in attendance, I hadn’t heard about it until just a couple months prior. I happened upon it when doing research on meditation programs inside organizations, [Keep Reading…]
Searching for Space
In my March contribution to The Pastry Box Project, Searching for Space, I share the story of why I left NY to find what I was looking for, and how I eventually found it within myself. My heart started racing. My palms got sweaty. I couldn’t breathe. I felt faint. Out of nowhere I screamed [Keep Reading…]
Awakening to Buddhism
I’ve been a Buddhist my entire life — though I didn’t know to call it that until recently. I made a career out of reducing human suffering. In 2002, I was called to Human-Computer Interaction to reduce the suffering caused by technology, the result of a lack of mindfulness and compassion in the design and [Keep Reading…]
Where Compassion is Born
An excerpt from my dialogue with Paul McAleer on our podcast Designing Yourself, Episode #9: Embracing the Suffering (originally aired October 1, 2013), with minimal editing for readability. The things we don’t like in others are the things we don’t fully understand. It’s a sign we haven’t gone out of our way to develop empathy [Keep Reading…]
Listeners of Designing Yourself: We Want to Hear from You!
As Paul and I head into our second season of Designing Yourself, we want to bring new voices into the mix. We’ll be interviewing guests, taking audience questions, and finding new ways to extend the conversation beyond Paul and me. If you have a question you want us to answer on-air, a topic for a [Keep Reading…]
