-WHAM WHAM WHAM- WAKE UP FROSH! IT’S DITCH DAY –WHAM WHAM WHAM- The sound of fists pounding on doors, feet pounding the ground, and senior’s shouts are the signal that Ditch Day has come. It’s time to gather in the courtyard, join a stack, and embark on an adventure. For... [Read More]

I wanted to delve a little deeper into practical habits I find useful when you’re tinkering like a madman. Documentation. One oft cited reason for studying history is that ‘we can’t move forward unless we understand where we’ve been.’ It’s also true in tinkering – a surprisingly hard habit to... [Read More]

    When the goal is to create something entirely new in a land where there is no established ‘best practice’ (which is what prototyping is after all) I’m a really big advocate of figuring out the end point and then taking many small steps in that general direction. This... [Read More]

The ‘madman’ is the first persona (step) of the creating process. It’s also my favorite – it’s full of newness, excitement, confidence, and every once and a while you get to let out your best mad-scientist laugh.   The madman doesn’t play by the rules. The madman has a goal... [Read More]

I’m preparing a short course about the prototyping process for a local startup hub/shared workspace.  Spurred by that, I’m going to spend a few posts organizing my thoughts about the creation of prototypes and the making process in general. Hopefully it’s useful for me and interesting for you. My approach... [Read More]