Wow. I’ve just finished up all the content for the second issue of The 11 Project (it arrives April 11th, so stay tuned!). Issue number two is all about sharing-about how we as humans are creating a wide range of new tools that enable us to share more easily (just look at the websites you use everyday, like Google and Facebook, or consider many of the other models that are becoming common sightings like car sharing, cohousing, coworking, CSA’s, etc). Continue
This is the final of a 3 part series on the top things I learned in art school. If you missed the first two articles, the first is here, and the second is here.
“Art school” is one of those phrases that usually get thrown around to describe ridiculous hipsters and their pretentious, and pointless, experimentation. However I have always found my years in art school at RISD (which for the record involved tons of hard work and were potentially the most fruitful years my brain has ever seen) as the greatest gift I could ever get- an education built around creative thinking, risk taking, and, yes, experimentation (maybe while surrounded by hipsters…) Continue
Well hello there. Welcome to part 2 of my 3 part series on the best things I learned in art school. If you missed the first article, it’s here.
“Art school” is usually presumed to describe ridiculous hipsters and their pretentious, and pointless, experimentation. In my case, I’ve always found my years in art school at RISD (which for the record involved tons of hard work and were potentially the most fruitful years my brain has ever seen) as the greatest gift I could ever get- an education built around creative thinking, risk taking, and, yes, experimentation (maybe while surrounded by hipsters…). Continue
“Art school” is usually presumed to describe ridiculous hipsters and their pretentious, and pointless, experimentation. In my case, I’ve always found my years in art school at RISD (which for the record involved tons of hard work and were potentially the most fruitful years my brain has ever seen) as the greatest gift I could ever get Continue
A few years ago, as I way trying on a variety of hats work-wise and was beginning to expand beyond the horizons of my private Rolfing® practice (which I still have), I felt comforted by the label “entrepreneur”. Putting aside how pretentious it sounds, it at least felt like a good umbrella term for what I was up to. To me it basically meant “maker of stuff that can scale and help lots of people”, and I could find myself within that. Continue
The most insidious assumption is: “That’s just the way it is”. I started noticing the pervasiveness of this belief courtesy, again, of Lynne Twist’s book The Soul of Money. In The Soul of Money Twist defines the three toxic myths of scarcity that she sees are universal worldwide. The third and most gripping of the three is: “That’s just the way it is”. Continue
Hello! I'm the founding editor (chief cook and bottle washer, yadda, yadda) of The 11 Project and you've just found my blog home. This is where I ponder defining my own good life, making stuff, and finding treasure- which usually arrives in the form of the exceptional people I interview for the magazine. Welcome.