Category: People
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On the Personal Philosophy of Carl Rogers
A while back, I was delighted to discover the source of one of my favorite quotes: What is most personal is most general. The quote is from psychologist Carl Rogers' 1956 essay "'This is Me': The Development of My Professional Thinking and Personal Philosophy", which can be found in the first chapter in his 1961…
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Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind, Strength and Vulnerability
I’ve always been impressed with the incredible range of Joni Mitchell‘s music – her voice, guitar virtuosity and the different genres she has explored – but after watching a documentary about her life and work, I have a whole new level of appreciation. In fact, I watched the video – Joni Mitchell, Woman of Heart…
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The “Boopsie Effect”: Gender, Sexiness, Intelligence and Competence
Last Thursday, I heard segments of a KUOW interview with Deborah Rhode, Stanford law professor and author of The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law, in which she spoke of the Boopsie effect, wherein women in upper-level positions in historically male-dominated professions find that “attractiveness suggests less competence and intellectual ability”.…
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Giving thanks for my ‘speed dial friends’
I am grateful for all of my circles of family and friends, offline and online, but on this day of Thanksgiving, I want to express my special appreciation for a small subset that I often call my speed dial friends: the set of my closest friends whose phone numbers I have programmed into the single-digit…
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More Better Design[ers] at Strands Labs Seattle
We’re delighted to be joined by two designers at Strands Labs Seattle: Josh Lind and Daniel Norman. Although all of the other members of the team have some knowledge of and experience with design, none of us has been trained as designers, or see that as our primary skill set. With the arrival of Josh…
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Richie Hazlewood joins Strands Labs Seattle for the summer
Richie Hazlewood arrived a few weeks ago from the School of Informatics at Indiana University to work with us on our next generation proactive display applications this summer. Richie has been working with Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly and others at Indiana on a variety of interesting and relevant projects involving ambient information displays, data mining,…
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New Faces at Strands Labs Seattle
Yogi and I have recently been joined by some wonderful new people at Strands Labs Seattle, and our new office space has some new surfaces that make it increasingly habitable. Sameer Ahuja, a graduate student intern from Virginia Tech, arrived May 12, and will be spending the summer with us. Sameer has been working with…
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Yogi Patel joins MyStrands Labs, Seattle, as Innovationeer
I’m delighted to announce that Yogi Patel has joined MyStrands Labs, Seattle, as Innovationeer! Yogi’s arrival doubles the size – and probably quadruples the productive capacity – of our new innovation team. He brings 5 years of development and program management experience, most recently in the area of wearable computing, contributing to the U.S. Army’s…
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Everyone’s a Nerd About Something: The Network Effects of Social Mobile Media
Marc Davis, Social Media Guru at Yahoo!, gave a far ranging presentation on "Mobile Media: Connecting Context, Content and Community" at the Stanford Mobile Computing Seminar this week. Marc started out highlighting the imbalance between the proportion of people who currently consume and produce text and consume other types of digital media (music, photos, videos),…
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Johathan Keats on Art, Science and Religion
Jonathan Keats gave a curiously engaging presentation on "Extraterrestrial Aesthetics, Divine Genetics, and Other Thought Experiments" at the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium of UC Berkeley’s Center for New Media Monday night. Jonathan noted that both art and science are too inwardly focused, so he uses art to tease out nuances in science, and science…