I’m delighted to share a Web site I’m building about my MFA thesis on mental health. To this day I can’t seem to stop thinking about it. I wrote more and practiced new skills and ways of thinking and was more creative in those two years than I ever had been before in my entire life. The prototypes, ...
Thinking deeply: learning to build reflection into retrospectives via visualization
I'm exploring different places to share my thoughts, and I've played with Medium over time as an outlet. I've added a post on the use of reflection as a design tool over there, and I'd love for more thoughts on it. I can see the value of Medium and online distribution to ...
Wrestling while on the shoulders of giants
I wish I could be one of those obsessively single-minded people who can see a clear topic and decide that that's the Everest to climb. I wish, I wish. The problem of loving to connect the dots is the inability to stop connecting, to stop peeling back the onion, to see a field of onions and more ...
New template, new term, new life
-A new template, a new term... ok, not a new life, so two out of three isn't bad. All the plans for blogging during grad school have gone out the window - the workload prevents schoolwork and attending events targeted to thesis, let alone blogging for class or blogging for personal. The good news ...
Holding onto the experience
And we turn him into an anecdote to dine out on like we’re doing right now. But it was an experience. I will not turn him into an anecdote. How do we keep what happens to us? How do we fit it into life without turning it into an anecdote with no teeth? A punch line you’ll mouth over and over years ...