In Over Your Head

Month: January 2010

  • Why Twitter Was Inevitable

    Have you listened to the radio recently? I was on a radio interview with the CBC last week with Jo-Ann Roberts. It reminded me about a lot of stuff I had forgotten about in radio culture– things that are necessary because of channel-surfing that goes on with most listeners. One of those things is to…

  • Great books this month

    Guys, I normally don’t do this kind of thing, but Escape From Cubicle Nation is amazing. I just met Pam Slim this week. We were getting awards for our books at the 800 CEO READ awards and as a result, we ended up trading books. I just finished reading hers and it’s so great. You…

  • It Isn’t Perfect– Oh Well

    I’m reading this amazing blog right now called Marshall and Me. It’s Michael Hinton, a guy I met a few months ago, writing a post every day about something or other that Marshall McLuhan wrote. He’s doing 300 posts. (I love projects that have finite endings. Rules For My Unborn Son is another.) Anyway, it’s…

  • 3 tips to get past your blocks

    Do, or do not– you know how it goes. Right now, it’s 9am. I just finished my Crossfit workout for the day. A few months ago, I did not work out at 9 in the morning. Not a chance. But today I was diligently up at 6:45 because my New York trip prevents me from…

  • Touching the Burner

    When we’re young, we’re curious. We experiment a lot. We don’t mind trying new things, whether it’s walking on our hands, running backwards, putting our hand in the toilet, or whatever. We do this even if the result is to get hurt, and that’s because our curiosity drives the understanding of how the world works.…

  • When Context Takes Over

    Magazine readers still have a hell of a time finding out about the stuff they see inside, don’t they? First, they write it down. Then they get to a web connection (computer or iPhone if they’re lucky). Then they Google it– and that’s just to get started. The percentage that lose interest along the way…

  • Scars

    A life that has been wasted leaves a body intact and pristine– but a life that has been properly used leaves scars. Scars tell stories. They are what’s left by mistakes we’ve made. They’re what remind us of the places we’ve been and the people we’ve known. Scars also tell us that we can handle…

  • The Hat You Wear

    I saw this Fairmont doorman this morning in Calgary. Cute hat, right? The hat is part of a uniform, of course, along with the coat and everything else he wears. He puts it on every day. But it’s also more than that. Every time this doorman puts on this uniform, he plays a role– one…

  • Opinions

    Ever wonder where your opinions come from? Jonathan Safran Foer, a pretty famous author, just published Eating Animals, a whole book about his becoming vegetarian in a time where nobody wants to hear about it at all (even me). Can you imagine trying to change someone’s mind like this? Opinions are often smart, but what’s…

  • Wow, look over here! Awesome! Bright! Shiny!

    Have you been reading this blog via RSS? It may be time to take another look. Today, the team at Stresslimitdesign and I are making public the final redesign of this blog, which has otherwise been half-assedly designed by myself since 2004. Only now, however, can I say I’m really happy of the way it…