So. Excited. Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks (non-fiction, neuroscience) What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (non-fiction, social science) How to Do Things with Language by JL Austin (non-fiction, language philosophy) Things That Make Us Smart: Defending human attributes in the age of machines by Donald Norman (non-fiction, design) Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (fiction, Russian classic) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki…
5: Final projects
I am frozen from the cold breeze of ‘overwhelmed’ s as I approach my last week of my first semester at Carnegie Mellon. One product-service innovation/design philosophy paper. Two interactive heteronym visualizations. (Using Adobe Edge) One interactive data visualization using processing. One video sketch of said visualization being implemented in a real life circumstance. One argument…
Friendsgiving 2013
It was so wonderful to see Igor & Shanna and be in New York for a bit. I was definitely eager from a break from work. It ended up being a lot of eating, movie-watching, and laughing. Perfect, right?! Probably my favorite Thanksgiving in a few years.
PHAMETRICS // 20
Your very own new breed of dog
Good little media advertising to increase shelter adoption rates. Although I do elevate the corgi, I want to get a shelter puppy.
‘Inequality for All’ documentary
Last week I was lucky enough to go to a screen of Inequality for All by Richard Reich at CMU. It was a really tremendous documentary about the growing economic disparity in the United States, largely (it seemed to me) because of public policy. I highly recommend it. It was a very fluid presentation of economic…
Fluffy french toast
5: Good Habits
Be on time. Really listen. No phones, no laptops, just you and the person talking. Make eye contact. Be proactive. Find your own solutions. Be positive. If you can’t be positive (which you can), at least be hilarious. Act kindly. It will never go wrong. Things I strive to do every day. I would…
What I know now // 010
The Employment
I really thought this movie was intriguing and reminded me of one of our readings on the sociology of inanimate objects in Seminar. But you can enjoy it regardless 🙂