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Beware of the Feature Creep This Halloween!

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
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Based on the success of the FEDEX logo story (1600 Tweets, 1200 FB Likes!), Fast Company Design (Co.Design) editors Cliff Kuang and Belinda Lanks invited me to pen a fun Halloween post. Here’s how it begins: Flooding our Co.Design headquarters this Halloween morning are hundreds of reports and sightings by technology writers and design analysts of what is undoubtedly the biggest and creepiest Halloween creep of them all: the Feature Creep. To know him is …
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10S: The Steve Jobs Code

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
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The only authorized biography of the late, great Steve Jobs, is, as everyone knows by now, barely three weeks old and penned by Aspen Institute CEO and former Time magazine editor Walter Isaacson. I’m generally skeptical of “authorized” biographies, because they tend to be puff pieces. I’ve been proven wrong on two occasions: Open, by Andre Agassi, and now Steve Jobs. In a complete contradiction to the rest of his secretive existence, Jobs gave Isaacson unprecedented …
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The Zen Master of Subtraction: Steve Jobs

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
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It’s no secret that Steve Jobs was a practitioner of Zen Buddhism. I believe his teenage sojourns to India not only broadened his perspective, but had everything to do with his eventual design aesthetic, one of clean simplicity and uncluttered elegance, which influenced all of the Apple products developed under his watch. This most famous of Diane Walker’s portfolio of the man speaks volumes. It’s the first photo in Isaacson’s centerbook collection, and shows Steve …
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Everyman The Musician

Monday, November 7th, 2011
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Little known fact: I’m a published BMI-affiliated songwriter, with over 20 songs represented by a Nashville publisher. (Other random biofacts here, scroll down to Frequently Given Answers.) I’ve had a few of them recorded by some obscure recording artists, but nothing you would have heard on the radio. I’m a wanna-be. The big fantasy, like that of so many other wanna-be songwriters, is to write a song for movie. I’m a lousy musician, with chops …
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