happy chaos freedom machine

My daughter has been hard at work on a webcomic based on the lives of the emperors who lead the transition from the Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire. It’s funny. We collaborated on a web site where she’ll be publishing it, 2 pages a week, from next week onwards. The first 3 pages of [...]

[Read more →]

 Wired has this great story about the slow percolating return of vinyl records: Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD’s Coffin As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl — the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles — is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or [...]

[Read more →]

This is somewhat off-topic (as if I actually have a topic to stay on) but Stephen Colbert is a hero of mine, and this article is really quite fascinating. I agree with Jon Stewart’s comment in the article, about Colbert interviewing subjects while in character: “[The whole show] depends on Stephen’s ability to process information [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve been thinking that the enterprise was a wrong-headed notion for years, but my new friend Sig has not only been thinking that, he’s been doing something about. I love his metaphors for what’s wrong with how we manage the enterprise and do business, but I think I love his software even more. Written in [...]

[Read more →]

Whipped up this little chart after a fleeting thought I had while driving. It occurred to me that everyone I know has a unique tradeoff between chaos and order. Some strive for perfect order, cleaning messes as they occur, crafting perfect filing systems, trying to keep their email inbox empty. Others simply forge ahead, valuing [...]

[Read more →]

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I [...]

[Read more →]