LOL to casually trying to pretend this is a monthly installment after 8 months. But on the other side of nearly two months of relaxing, reflecting, and slugging around I finally feel a little in the mood for writing again. I won’t try to fill in the whole 8 months, but I thought I’d talk…
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Performance of Self (is hard)
I have been listening to an audiobook called in The World Beyond Your Head and Chapter 9, The Presentation of Self, has really been sticking with me and I thought I’d share. In the past, there were more trades people and a person would received his identity through his vocation. He was successful and viewed as successful…
My favorite books of last year
I don’t watch TV and only watch movies in airplanes and as a social activity. I’ve heard there are some really great TV series out, and enjoy the movies I do get to see, I just never seem to find the time. When I walk into the door of my apartment, the first thing I…
I’d be shunned by Schön right now
One of the big differences between school and work for me is I have less time to reflect on my work. Instead of the teacher asking you ‘why’ and wanting to hear your answer, you get more of people asking ‘why’ as an opener for their idea. I’ve been working on this project lately and realizing how little…
Take a look, it’s in a book
In the beautiful wisdom of of the Reading Rainbow theme song, I’d like to invite you all to take a look, because it’s in a book. A reading rainbow. Something magical happened that will change my life for the better ever after. I learned that I can borrow audiobooks from the San Francisco library from an…
5: books James Victore recommends
Pretty diverse set, no? I want to give couple of them try. But he’s right about me not wanting to read Ralph’s again. I really agree that it’s our immersion in the world that helps make us diverse and strong designers. James Victore, for those of you new to the scene, is a graphic designer…
PHAMETRICS // 27
School’s back. Full-swing. And it’s very swingy. Unstable, in fact. (Photo of a group outing of our design cohort)
10: Most influential books
I saw someone complete this challenge on Facebook and as an English-major-for-life I was super intrigued. This is not your run-of-the-mill spam chain. This is book business! I started at the bottom and then I decided to list them all before I kept writing about them and now, looking over this list, it looks a…
What I’m reading over winter break…
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…