My Voice and the IA Summit
I’ve been thinking about the experience I had chairing the Information Architecture Summit. The event has been key to me throughout my career. I got involved in Septemeber of 2008 because I was called to help Samantha Bailey with the 2009 conference. She needed to know that her in process work chairing the event was going to be left … Read more
Almost There
I’ve had a second job for awhile. It’s a volunteer job. I’m on year two of co-chairing the IA Summit. We almost have the program ready this year. It’s been a long road but I think we’ve pulled together a great event that people are going to get value from. Working at my second job … Read more
In Honor of Two Great Men
Two of the most influential educators in my life left this mortal coil in 2009. Professor James Gremmels and Dr. Raymond Lammers. My English and Theater professors at the University of Minnesota, Morris, MN. I took a class my freshman year of college that the two of them co-taught. It was a critical thinking class … Read more
And a Happy New Year
Of course I had to get a blog post in before the end of the year. I thought I would do this instead of sending out the holiday letter. The holiday letter is a good tradition as it makes you sit down and review the past year. The big trend I resisted this year with … Read more
The significance of 8 in the year of 2008
I tend to get reflective this time of year. I go into hibernation mode and reflect upon the nature of things-usually over the past year. Recently as I was reflecting, I discovered that the number eight had appeared in my life a great deal. Some of 8′s in my life this year include: the place … Read more
TMI?
I found the fact that more information does not necessarily lead to better decisions interesting. “Michael Mauboussin of Legg Mason, a fund-management group, cites a study that gave horse-racing handicappers varying amounts of information when ranking horses. The more information they received, the more confident they became about their answers. But the success of their … Read more
Today’s ToDo List
todo send emails have meetings delete user on computer pack it all up and go to fedex done and done another phase of my life begins and ends
Mahtab’s First Trip to Baltimore
Recently my friend Mahtab and I shared a memory. We were reminded of her 30th birthday in Baltimore. We were both attending the IA Summit and it happened to also be her birthday weekend, so we went out for her favorite, Indian Food. We found a wonderful little restaurant just down the street from our … Read more
Shifting Perspectives: Returning from a trip
We were on a long vacation and I’m finally reintegrated back to my ‘real’ life. It’s good to take a break. You need to take a break. You shift perspective, get out of ruts, start doing things differently every day and open your mind just a little bit. I took a break from my digital … Read more
On Windmills
I’m taking a trip at the end of the month to the Netherlands. I was doing a little research and came across this article, which included the following, “A spiritual visit to the countryside. Windmills are worthy objects of artistic attention, as Rembrandt found. (The windmill was said to be his muse.) De Kat, the … Read more
