Mindlab Rocks and Please Meetup with Customer Development

I went to see Christian Bason talk about his Public Sector Innovation unit called MindLab at UBC in the fall of 2011. He was amazing. His stories of radical change at the Danish Ministry of Taxation and a recent Health Care for Seniors experiment in Frederica, Denmark were very powerful. I made the effort and...

Sexy iPhone Apps – Byword Text Editor

I find it ironic that my first iPhone app purchase was Byword. It’s a text editor. How un-sexy is that. In the old days I’d go to the stationary cabinet and get a new pen. Today it seems that I’m getting a new text editor. My main motivation was to get away from iPhone Notes....

Abundance – Awareness and Positive Action

I highly recommend reading Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. This is a feel good book. It provides a long list of positive activites that are happening right now. It is very inspiring and can help one get moving and make a difference. This is in contrast to a book like Tim Flannery's...