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metacool is now at metacool.com 8 Jun 2013 | 07:13 am
All good things must come to an end, what goes up must come down, all public companies eventually go out of business, and every blog ends up on a new server. Per my post from a few weeks back, I'm...
The heart of leadership 2 May 2013 | 12:13 am
Like many people, I was deeply moved by the brave individuals who ignored their own safety to help victims just seconds after the recent Boston Marathon bomb blasts. How and why did they do such coura...
John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!! 27 Apr 2013 | 11:25 pm
This talk by John McWhorter is another of my favorites from TED 2013. It's elegant, witty, informative, intelligent, entertaining, persuasive. This is so because McWhorter only gives one talk here. Al...
metacool Thought of the Day 20 Apr 2013 | 07:28 am
"Everything can look like a failure in the middle. Persist, persevere, refocus, and things can turn around." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Seinfeld + Porsche: a shared creative process 17 Apr 2013 | 02:43 am
To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, comedy writing and car design are two things you don’t see people doing in public. So here’s a video peek at Seinfeld’s private creative process—and that of Michael Mauer...
Unabashed Gearhead Gnarlyness: General Motors 10 Apr 2013 | 09:19 am
There's some amazing design work happening at GM these days. Though I have not driven either model (they're not on the market yet), I'm really impressed by the design work done on two new GM models, t...
Nine years of metacool-ing 5 Apr 2013 | 07:54 am
This week marks nine years of my exploring the art and science of bringing cool stuff to life. I started metacool because I was bored one Saturday afternoon. My wife was out of town for the weekend, I...
metacool Thought of the Day 29 Mar 2013 | 12:24 pm
"I give myself 24 hours to mourn a failure. When something fails, I wallow in it for a day. And then I move on. I never let it stay with me for more than a day. But I give it...
Failing. And dealing with it. 28 Mar 2013 | 07:39 am
A few of my Principles for Innovating are more popular than others. When I give a talk on those principles, the first six are received with a lot of enthusiasm, which is to be expected, because they'r...
John Maeda on creative leadership 27 Mar 2013 | 06:42 am
Here's a really interesting diagram created by my friend John Maeda, who is the President of RISD. It's a portrait of leading, surviving being the leader of something, and then thriving and growing: T...
