May 2012
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May 29th
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“For the past decade, we’ve seen the majority of our communication channels...”
– If you’d like to hear more about Recess, and 12 other brilliant projects from my classmates, consider joining us on Saturday
May 10th
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May 3rd
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May 3rd
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May 3rd
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May 2nd
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The joys of pickup basketball
benhartney: There is nothing quite like executing a perfect pick and roll with a complete stranger. It requires timing, coordination, awareness, and most of all a connection, with someone that five minutes earlier you didn’t even know existed. The moment only lasts a few seconds, but it never fully goes away. “What suburbia cries for are the means for people to gather easily, inexpensively,...
May 2nd
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April 2012
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“Class of 2012….1. Your time in fraternity basements was well spent. The...”
– Some really nice thesis thoughts in here. Via Erin
Apr 29th
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Apr 25th
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“Tree. Tree. Tree. Tree. Tree. Tree. Tree. Tree. Tree. Tree. Wait a...”
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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“In an attempt to restore some of the whimsy of childhood to a workaholic city, a...”
– Awesome thesis support today via the Washington Post article “Group pushes D.C.’s workaholic adults to play”  I love the spirit of this, but it feels a bit flash mob / marketing esque, rather than something more sustainable that can be built upon. I hope that what I’m working on...
Apr 24th
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 17th
“Cooper Smith, best known for his recurring role as the lovable neighbor Wilson...”
– in LEAPP tonight we had to read our obituaries. I started out with a lesser known fact about myself
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
Pouting →
allisonacs: (Taken with http://cinemagr.am)
Apr 13th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 3rd
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“A product is not a set of screens — it’s the stories those screens enable.”
– Good stuff to think about for thesis via thoughtyoushouldseethis: Story-centered Design: Hacking Your Brain To Think Like A User is a great story by Google Ventures partner, Braden Kowitz.  [Story via Erik Van Crimmin] (via slavin)
Apr 3rd
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March 2012
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Thesis Lessons Learned From a Boy and His...
I’ve been spending a great deal of time trying to think of the content strategy and tone around RECESS, as well as the emotion I want to convey in my thesis presentation in May. Today, this cartoon went by my Tumblr feed and it all clicked :: Calvin and Hobbes is everything I want RECESS to be. From Wikipedia: Calvin is an impulsive, creative, imaginative, energetic, very curious,...
Mar 31st
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Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 28th
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Mar 26th
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Prototype(s)
Over the last month, I’ve been prototyping various aspects of my app and service, testing my riskiest hypotheses and looking for insights into features that I’ve been designing. The prototype centered around kickball games at McCarren Park on two Saturdays (March 10th and March 24th), however, the games themselves were actually the least important / interesting part of what I was...
Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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“This week, my friend asked if I wanted to play in a kickball league. At first I...”
– Jason Hightower This made my day yesterday. Especially because until 2 weeks ago, I had never met Hightower.
Mar 26th
Theory & Hero: On a career in creative advertising →
valdean: “So was it worth it? Well of course not. It turns out it was just advertising. There was no higher calling. No ultimate prize. Just a lot of faded, yellowing newsprint, and old video cassettes in an obsolete format I can’t even play any more even if I was interested. Oh yes, and a lot of framed…
Mar 21st
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Mar 17th
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Mar 16th
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Mar 12th
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Mar 11th
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Mar 10th
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Mar 9th
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Mar 9th
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“What better way to connect you to your friend than with a device that you always...”
– “Facebook: We would have been a mobile application if created today” A question I’ve needed to answer for the past week is if I am building a mobile site/app, and/or a website. There’s no doubt that part of this app needs to be mobile…given the huge emphasis on...
Mar 8th
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Mar 8th
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Mar 7th
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“A good idea, well-crafted and pursued with passion, doesn’t need a...”
– Was just revisiting some notes from class and found this gem of a quote from Dan Provost when he visited our thesis class a few weeks ago
Mar 7th
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The Quantified Self vs The Communified Us
Last year, in our first thesis class with Liz Danzico, we were asked to prepare a “thesis fiction”, a product that’s out in the world already that we present as if its our own. The point of the assignment was to get us thinking about the world before and after the introduction of this product. I chose to present Nike+. As a former high school track and cross country athlete, I...
Mar 6th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 4th
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