Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book about a Timequake, where everyone had to relive the past 10 years on autopilot, without free will to change it. Don’t live your life on autopilot – use randomness to keep things interesting.
Scaling Emergence
on October 20, 2008 with 4 Comments
Unconferences are amazing experiences, but can they scale? This is a problem we’ve been wrestling with while planning BIL 2009.
My Oxford Experience
on August 26, 2008 with 8 Comments
This summer I was lucky enough to study philosophy at Oxford. I had some amazing discussions, spent time with a very diverse and interesting group of people, and enjoyed some of the best food I’ve ever eaten.
In London
on July 26, 2007 with 0 comments
I’ve been in London for the past week. I love it here, and I might be living here next summer (either here or Sydney, Australia). I haven’t taken my camera out much or done the tourist thing since I did that last time I was here. Mostly I’ve just been walking around the city, hanging [...]
Week at the lake
on July 1, 2007 with 1 Comment
I’m up at Lake Travis for the week. I was hoping to go out wakeboarding, but the lake is up so high that they’ve closed it. Here’s a shot of our park – notice the swings in the background. The driving range at the golf course is completely underwater, so we weren’t able to warm [...]
Lago Vista
on May 30, 2007 with 0 comments
I was up in Lago Vista, which is on Lake Travis (near Austin), for the past week. My laptop died so I wasn’t able to process any of the photos I took while I was up there. Now that I’m back at work I was able to take a look at them, and posted a [...]
Cold Easter
on April 8, 2007 with 0 comments
A few photos I took this Easter (more here). It was actually snowing for a while, which is a first for Easter here in Austin. I went down to the lake to take a few photos because it looked surreal.
Spring Break 07
on March 11, 2007 with 0 comments
Instead of having lots of posts, I’ll just keep this one updated. For more info on what I’m doing, check out my twitter status on the right or at my twitter page. Also, all of my Spring Break photos can be found in this flickr set. Thursday, Mar 15 Today’s my birthday! We took a [...]
Spring Break and Summer Plans
on January 30, 2007 with 0 comments
A lot of people have been asking if I’m going to SXSW this year. And while I wish I was, I’ll be in Colorado skiing while everyone else is discussing Web 2.0, social networks and the future of the web. When we made the ski trip arrangements I didn’t know it was the same week [...]
Subject to Fits
on January 21, 2007 with 0 comments
Brittany and I went to see Subject to Fits over at the Alley Theatre in Houston this Saturday. It was a great play based on Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot” (I’m not going to write a full review, the Houston Chronicle did a great job of that). They say you don’t need to have read the book [...]
