Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness
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Locked-in Syndrome: Diving Bells, Butterflies, Freedoms and Families
Amy and I recently saw The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (or, more properly, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon), during an unexpected extended layover in San Francisco. The movie is about the late Jean-Dominique Bauby, former editor of the fashion magazine Elle, who at age 43 suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed except for…
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Principal Instigator at MyStrands: A Prospective Perspective
This is my first week as Principal Instigator at MyStrands. I wrote last week about leaving Nokia to join MyStrands, in which I focused primarily on the leaving part. I wanted to write a little more today about the joining part, and the excitement I feel about reprising and redefining my principal instigator role in…
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Six month update on my elbow Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment
Amid the broad range of emotions and activities in which I’m engaging this week – a sad last week at Nokia before an exciting new start at MyStrands – I was able to schedule an appointment for my 6-month followup visit with Dr. Mishra regarding progress on the platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment for my right…
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Leaving Nokia, Joining MyStrands
It seems like just yesterday that I was writing enthusiastically about joining Nokia, and then about my excitement about working at Nokia on an ambitious new project (related to Context, Content and Community) at an ambitious new lab (Nokia Research Center Palo Alto), but in fact it's been over a year since the initiation of…
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Complimenting and Complementing: Great Management through Praising and Partnering
I recently finished “First Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently”, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, in which they emphasize the importance of discovering each individual’s unique constellation of talents – the things he/she cannot help but do (and do well) – and aligning those with appropriate roles – where…
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Unconcerned About Privacy: The Pew Internet Report on Digital Footprints
The recent report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project on "Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency" presents some interesting statistics and analysis regarding people’s awareness and use of digital information about themselves and others on the Internet (their "digital footprints"). The most interesting result, to me, was…
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I’ve been Schmapped!
Or rather, one of my Flickr photos – of the large photoboard at the Hopvine Pub on Capitol Hill in Seattle – has been schmapped. Schmap appears to be a not-so-new (founded 2004) travel guide mashup that combines information on points of interest (from Wcities, an online travel information aggregator), e.g., restaurant reviews, with photos…
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StumbleUpon Happiness: Computer-Mediated Serendipity
I enjoyed an engaging presentation by Garrett Camp, founder of StumbleUpon, who was the speaker at this week’s PARC Forum … the first PARC Forum I’ve attended, despite having been working at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, only about a mile away, for the past 14 months (!). I’d signed up for StumbleUpon in August…