Boiling user experience down to its easiest, most intuitive interaction seems simple, but it’s not. Hence my long-time friend Krys Blackwood‘s career as Lead User Experience Designer at NASA/JPL. Making shit simple is hard. And I think about this all the time now that I’m interacting a lot with Mom and how she interacts with …
At my brother Lance’s 54th birthday party, one of Lance’s friends shared that his parents forced him to go on nature trips with his family, even when all he wanted to do was stay home and play video games. And now, as an adult, he’s happy his parents forced him to go. This topic came …
The NBC News article: Boy Scouts reach $850 million settlement with tens of thousands of sexual abuse victims. The settlement is the largest in a child sexual abuse case in United States history. My brother made a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation and arrived at ~1,300 victims per year (divide 80,000 claimants by 60 years (1960 to …
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Lighting is the difference between striking and strikeout My long time friend, David Howe, film director, screen writer, and photographer, gave me the best advice for taking photos of fashion models: lighting. He said: “It doesn’t really matter what type of camera you have as long as you’re good at properly lighting the scene and …
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NFT (Non-Fungible Token) resources that I find helpful. I first heard about NFTs from Gary Vaynerchuk on Instagram and One37pm on Instagram. NFT Explained Simply Video by Gary Vaynerchuk on Instagram. “If you understand utility aka membership cards, rewards on credit cards, tickets to VIP access … Orrrrrrrrr … you understand why people care about …
During this evening’s Toastmasters Zoom meeting I posed the following question: What is your biggest turn-off when watching / hearing someone speak via Zoom? Fantastic answers from Capital City Toastmasters #142 in Sacramento, CA Ring-light reflecting in speaker’s glasses/eyes Speaker shuffling papers Speaker’s head/face out of frame Speaker slurping beverage Speaker eating food Speaker smacking …
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It all started when I posted a question on Facebook: Is it true that America wouldn’t need a $15 minimum wage if there was no inflation? I stated that “$1 in 2020 had the purchasing power of $6.43 in 1971” based on the chart at Value of one US dollar in the United States 1635-2020 …
“The Internet allows you – you – to upload as much positivity as you like. You’re welcome to add something positive to the Internet right now.”
“I eventually got used to speaking without butterflies, but it took a lot of speaking with butterflies to do it.”