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I’m Writing a Book!

In Design, Personal, Work on 16 July 2008 tagged book, lou rosenfeld, rosenfeld media with 2 comments

photo by chotda After two years of discussions with Lou Rosenfeld, I’ve finally signed with his publishing company, Rosenfeld Media, to write a book entitled See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas. For those that don’t know, Rosenfeld Media is like an O’Reilly for user experience books. They focus on compact, [...]

History of Video Games 1972-2007

In Gaming, Personal on 5 April 2008 with 5 comments

When we visited my parents in February, it occurred to my dad that both my brother Jamie and I now work in the video game industry. Jamie started his own company, Klei Entertainment, whilst I joined an early stage startup for gamers called Raptr. My dad said, I let you guys play too many video [...]

How to Throw a Surprise Party

In Personal on 27 March 2008 tagged coley, coleysupplies, party with 5 comments

1. Don’t send invites too early – the earlier you send the invites, the more time there is to leak the existence of the party. Send them about a week in advance so people can block it out. 2. Don’t give too many details – start out with a Save the Date. Less details means [...]

This Week

In Personal, Thoughts and Rants on 29 August 2007 with 1 comment

This week My brother’s getting married Our apartment got a notice to vacate One of my best friends got engaged Phew.

Clearly You

In Personal, See What I Mean on 8 June 2007 tagged comic, dilbert with Comments Off

That was the subject my friend Min Jung had when she sent me this comic. So perfect.

The Pipes Team Shout Out

In Personal, Work on 8 February 2007 tagged bradley horowitz, caterina fake, daniel raffel, edward ho, jonathan trevor, leonard lin, Man at Work, pasha sadri, pipes, yahoo! with 3 comments

I tagged a bunch of people in my last post but I wanted to do a proper shout out because the talent is really phenomenal and worth talking about in more detail. The Pipes team started in September with four people: Pasha Sadri: the man with the idea, who also came up with Yahoo! Trip [...]

Rewire the Web

In Personal, Work on 7 February 2007 tagged daniel raffel, edward ho, jonathan trevor, Man at Work, pasha sadri, pipes, yahoo! with 12 comments

The project I’ve been deep into for the past few months, Pipes, has finally launched! I worked with an awesome group of people to put this out and we did it in an amazingly short time. I only joined the team in November and they started work on it in September. I do think of [...]

This Post is Not Yet Rated

In Personal on 5 October 2006 tagged journal with Comments Off

Love Parade (or for some reason this year, “LoveFest”) is an outdoor electronic music festival and parade which I believe started in Germany. The San Francisco version happened the Saturday before last and marked the beginning of the most ridiculously long day I’ve had in a long time. 01:00PM: Online fantasy hockey draft. Exciting stuff. [...]

Jane Kim for San Francisco School Board

In Personal on 29 September 2006 tagged agendacide, janekim, minjungkim, samchanse, school board with Comments Off

jane kim for san francisco school board Originally uploaded by head.zoo.keeper. I’d be remiss to not mention my future roommate and brilliant friend Jane Kim’s campaign for San Francisco school board I’ve only been here a year and probably won’t have kids in the forseeable future, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think the education [...]

Jedis in Manhattan

In Personal, Travel on 21 August 2006 tagged bomb, games, james bond, jedis, kids, manhattan, star wars, video games with 2 comments

On my way back from DC, I had the pleasant experience of once again having my first leg of the flight delayed and thus running through the terminal to catch the connection. US Airways was less than apologetic about the possibility that my luggage may once again not make the connection with me and I [...]