A few nights ago I went to a live music festival here in “downtown” Danville. The streets of the courthouse square were blocked off for the food, music, and drinks… just imagine a movie where they’re portraying a small town festival on a warm summer night. The music of the evening included a variety of [...]
At the client meeting today, Paul (the custom home builder), talked briefly about the growing popularity of shared offices. Offices with a couple shared conference rooms, printers/copiers, break rooms, receptionists, etc. Where small business, or more commonly, sole proprietors like myself, can rent one or two offices. This allows them to get out of their [...]
by Drew on April 16, 2009
Steve Hodson has an excellent post about the rapid growth of social media and our tendancy to over-indulge in 24/7 connectivity. Is there a breaking point? Are we spreading ourselves too thin by trying to stay connected? “For every new service that we are cajoled into joining because of social media peer pressure we just [...]
by Drew on March 30, 2009
This post is about the difference between the illusion of charity and actually taking action to make a real difference. (Disclosure: This may be classified as a rant. Proceed with caution.) Okay, here we go. Although I don’t use Facebook much these days, I log in occasionally to check in. Each time I have a [...]
by Drew on February 24, 2009
Imagine if we regularly operated on ten “levels of consciousness” instead of two? It’s hard to imagine, but what if we had such a huge reservoir of attention that we really could focus on 5-10 conscious levels simultaneously? Maybe in 100 years when software-based human brains come standard… maybe when you upgrade your internal operating system to Human 4.0 one of the new features will be “up to 10 levels of consciousness! Now with 100x standard human attention!” Ha, now there’s a scary thought…
by Drew on February 6, 2009
Today on the Google Blog there’s an interesting post about how Google performs eye-tracking studies to improve the quality of search results. The idea is simple – track where people look on the page. By learning more about how our brain looks for information, they can improve how they present information – essentially improving the [...]