Designing Products, Experiences, and Marketing
Every year, I take a different approach to resolutions. Since 2013 I’ve crafted a personal balanced scorecard to guide my personal behaviour, and, hopefully, improve it. Most of this is pretty personal to me, but I’m happy to talk with anyone about it if you have questions. For the last few years, I’ve broken my…
the factors that convinced me of climate change
Dialogue(conscious thought dialogue) 0:00Good Morning Iowa, welcome to November! We’re digging in to fall, the holiday season is nearly upon us, and so as we take a break from plowing through the bucket of leftover Halloween candy, it’s a good time for chit-chat I love Iowa. Were an amazing state, but even great states can…
# Mind / Professional Read 1 book p/month (track at Goodreads.com) Dedicate 30 minutes p/night to reading January: What Is Not Yours is Not Yours Write 1 long-form blog post per month (sethmsparks.com) Dedicate 60 min p/week to research, draft, and/or proof. Vlog 1x per month (YouTube.com/vlogwithseth) Dedicate 60 min p/week to research, draft, and/or…
This post was written on July 29, but went unpublished as I’d hoped that it could be edited in favor of our situation. It has not, so the original post is being published, along with a more recent update. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Hampton. Our new dog, as of May 2016. Yes,…
I keep seeing people debate whether or not kids should learn to write in cursive. I hear it from my wife who’s a teacher. I see it in my social media streams. I see advocates on both sides from both boomer generations and teenagers. My social barometer tells me that the “we don’t need to…
Every year I try to assess my lifestyle, and determine the specific actions I want to take to improve certain elements of my life. Those assessments lead to my annual personal balanced scorecard. This is my third year completing a personal balanced scorecard, and I feel like each year I design something a little better.…
Text Entry: Thank you for accepting my opinion. I would like to urge the FCC to reclassify all access to the internet as a utility under Title II of the Communications Act, and to regulate Internet Service Providers (ISPs) accordingly. While the center of the debate is about delivering content to users without speed influence…
That’s a fairly drastic headline, but I had something happen to me today that was the result of a feature glitch on eBay’s app. Two weeks ago I sold my iPad on eBay. The buyer evidently didn’t bother looking at the pictures, and then complained about scratches on the 3 year old iPad 2. Because…