Roxane Gay is amazing, and I just found out that she did at TED talk about being a bad feminist, and the scrutiny that women who are public figures are held up to when they declare themselves to be feminists. We’re coming up on the tenth annivarsary of Hurricane Katrina. I was only 12 when …
I first heard about Brené Brown from AndKathleen’s post about her a while back, and I’d read a few articles about her work on vulnerability, but I didn’t actually watch her TEDx talk until yesterday, when I was coooking for hours and needed something to distract me. Her talk is about her research on wholeheartedness – …
For me, cars were an entry point to design. Cars were around me, I could look at them whenever I wanted, and I made a weird habit of identifying all the cars around me, all the time, when I was fifteen or sixteen*. I grew up in Metro Detroit, too, so the presence of the …
From 100 Books That Should Be Written I’ve just found this blog of books that should be written, and I think it’s pretty great. Moral of the story: If you start a blog about making book covers, I’m gonna be all over that. (see From Cover to Cover) I love this one too! Although…if Jessica …
This Creative Mornings talk articulates some opinions that I’ve had for a while about copyright laws, and why they need to be changed.The Digital Public Library of America just went live, and it seems like it’s a fantastic resource for researching…things. It’s also making me consider information, how we access and view it, and how that’s changing.Damn …
I’ve been keeping an eye on Creative Mornings for a while. It was started by Swiss Miss, who I really admire, and the videos are generally full of interesting ideas. I need to move to a city where they have a Creative Mornings, for sure. When I saw that Chris Guillebeau did a talk, I …