November 2010
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July 2010
4 posts
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June 2010
19 posts
“YOU WILL SEE SUCH PRETTY THINGS.”
“WHAT HIDES IN YOUR MIND?”
“YOU ARE LOST ON THE PATH.”
Unpublished, (previously) undocumented Google... →
Learn Tolkien's elvish →
“The sounds I am listening to every night at first appear to be human voices...”
– Nikola Tesla 1918
“Dear Mother: I have written to tell you my worrying secret. Now don’t cry when...”
– Samuel Barber, age 9
Millions of white vans parked on a runway. What? ... →
“Awesome is played out.”
May 2010
14 posts
“It’s time to jog off two years worth of 7-11 taquitos, air traffic...”
– Me
“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
New Tumblr: Stuff my girlfriend will like →
Hyperextending yourself
My VCU Brandcenter career is effectively over. I’ve taken my last class, I’ve completed my final portfolio review, and I have no more assignments to turn in. The building, which for the last 30 weeks has been an incubator of tension and progress, is dark and quiet. So why am I still here? Because sometime earlier in the semester, I thought it would be a nice bit of extra work to...
I love finding amazing people to listen to
I’m always looking for really smart people to learn from. I haven’t yet, however, found anyone who is studying game psychology and how it will tie into the future of communications. That changed yesterday. I stumbled across Jesse Schell’s talk from DICE 2010 on G4tv.com. He’s amazing-he owns a gaming company, teaches at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology...
Put down that marketing book
I’m sure there’s a line in there somewhere that says that you should “zig” when everyone else is “zagging.” You are not performing a “zig” by reading Godin, Gladwell, or Sullivan, as smart as they all are. Consume something your friends and competitors are not consuming. Something like The most beautiful house in the world by Witold Rybczynski, or...