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
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
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
I’ve always been a rapid fire reader, but lately it’s at a fever pitch. I’m going through an average of four books each week. It is delicious. As I dug through my stack of recent Amazon purchases this week, three seemingly disconnected books happily and accidentally came one after the other to form one of those “big theme” moments in my life. Continue
Yesterday I was talking with a client of mine and he told me the story of his great-great uncle’s immigration from Russia. It involved deserting the Russian army, walking to China, and then hiding in a boat as it left Shanghai to find himself- after what I’m sure was not exactly easy livin’- on the shores of San Francisco. 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.