Earlier this year, my friend and former colleague Thor Snilsberg started a new nonprofit organization called CityScience to improve the quality and...
I’ve been reading Steven Johnson‘s new book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. It’s an enjoyable...
I’d like to make an addition to my internet wish list for 2011: a Strategic Networking Tool. Here’s what I mean: Online networks of all...
Last week, I mentioned an article called The Making of the Corporate Athlete (originally published in 2001 in the Harvard Business Review). If you...
Last month, I attended the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council’s annual unconference. My favorite session, by far, was Bill...
Last night, I attended an event at Harvard about the Knight News Challenge, put on by Hacks/Hackers Boston and the Knight Foundation. The room was...
I opened my talk at last week’s Times Open event with this little video plugging Phone Idol. It got a few laughs, which was the...
I love seeing people write to their future selves. Here’s a note I came across in my very own inbox today, no doubt jotted down on my iPhone...
At OpenPlans, we’ve hired two new Project/Product managers within the last month. I couldn’t be happier with the hires, and they are...
Most of the action is happening on my Tumblog these days. For some reason I can’t stop posting there, and I can’t start here…
We are starting up several projects right now at OpenPlans. As a first step, we are setting up project management infrastructure for each. You would...
At OpenPlans, we’re busy signing up new clients for our products & services, and we’re also spending a lot of time fundraising (from...
In her bathroom, a friend of mine has some really beautiful illustrations of posts from the Craigslist Missed Connections section. If you’ve...
I love music, but I am really bad about keeping up with new stuff. My iTunes library is only so-so, so I spend most of my time listening to...
This week, we’re on vacation in Cape Cod with my wife’s family. They’ve been renting the same tiny cabin by the beach for the past...
This morning, I drove from Boston to Cape Cod, alone with my thoughts except for Theo sleeping in the back seat. Once we were out of the city and...
I’ve been thinking a lot about fitness lately, mostly spurred on by the great stuff coming out of Clay Johnson’s new blog, InfoVegan...
I spend a fair amount of time thinking about LifeHacking. Getting my inbox filters just right so I can get to “inbox double-zero,”...
Next Wednesday, I’ll be on a panel at the MTA Developers Unconference. I’m very much looking forward to the event, because among other...
After many moons of plotting and scheming, yesterday we announced our organizational rebranding: The organization formerly known as The Open Planning...