My Crazy Ideas < Crazy
A couple of years ago I was on a plane home from Columbus, OH trying to use my netbook. I had an Acer Aspire One, which has the weird mouse touchpad with keys on the…
Designing Products, Experiences, and Marketing
A couple of years ago I was on a plane home from Columbus, OH trying to use my netbook. I had an Acer Aspire One, which has the weird mouse touchpad with keys on the…
So you’ve read my thoughts on how we form very powerful memories, but my Harry Potter fanboy mind got to thinking… If these “memory” Horcruxes cause pain to us, can we go about “killing” the…
I was thinking about memories while lying in bed (where I do most of my thinking) when it hit me, that very powerful memories are created through the right mix of situational elements. But from…
I stole that title. It’s the same title as one of my favorite Wizard of Ads Monday Morning Memos. I stole it to capture your attention. I stole it because this morning I became fearful…
Who would buy a $7 cup of coffee? Simply put, I would. Or at least, I have been lately. Today even. A Starbucks large mocha frappuccino made with soy milk and two extra shots of…
My department is founded on the principle that one business can utilize the customer base of another business to market its product and achieve mutually profitable results. The success of this kind of program is…
Twitter is awesome. There’s no denying it. There are haters for sure, but daily Tweets have become as much a part of my lifestyle as clean underwear. (Which is a necessity.) Over the last few…
As you may have heard, a long while back Google bought a little start-up called GrandCentral.com. I was lucky enough to get a GrandCentral account setup while the beta was still available, and use it…
For the last two winters, the Ankeny video and game rental company Hollywood Video has done something that bugged me. I’ve done nothing more than lived with it, until now. Never thinking about how Hollywood…