Category Archives: Events

Let’s Go For A Walk and Talk: Experiments in a Creative Series.

“Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, ‘The act of walking … is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part ofContinue Reading

World Domination Summit: Day 2 and Beyond

Sometimes I get caught up in the whirlwind of the weeks that it’s hard for me to find time to sit down and write my posts – it’s been about a week and a half since the epic second rendition of WDS concluded, and I went straight back to work,  followed by a  weekend spentContinue Reading

Reinvent Business Hackathon: Fast Company, Frog Design + 200 Hackers in San Francisco

“Reinvent Business” Hackathon – Winning Concepts from frog on Vimeo. After a whirlwind week, this past weekend I was part of the inaugural frog design, LRN and Fast Company‘s weekend summit “Reinvent Business Hackathon.” It was a 2-day intense creative event with 180 people from around the world to break into small teams to change business and re-humanize the structuresContinue Reading

Life Doesn’t Always Go According to Plan… Hospitals, Applications, Hackathons, and Other Adventures.

Image from Murray Mitchell. OVERWHELMED. That’s the word of the week. First: I am grateful. For you. ALL of you. You’re stunning. More updates on the Start Something Project project in just a bit. As you know, it—LIFE—sometimes doesn’t go exactly as planned. Scratch that – it never goes according to plan. Yet here was the planContinue Reading

The Conference that Doesn’t Feel Like a Conference: Touch Down in Nebraska For Big Omaha, 2012

**A quick update for everyone who voted on the last post: First, an overwhelming thank you of gratitude, because I don’t know what I did to deserve all of you, but you’re absolutely the greatest. I put together a survey in the question about my future projects and more than a hundred of you responded to myContinue Reading