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An interesting article in the New York Times today about unconscious reactions to stimuli has a lot of connections with our work. The article talks about a number of fascinating studies which trace the effects of events as insignificant as being passed a hot or cold cup of coffee, which in the end have a [...]

The clock is ticking for the Global All Hands meeting in August, which will be held here in Toronto, which will have people coming in from France, the UK, the States, the Netherlands, Finland and Australia. What do all these people have in common? They’ll probably want to eat while they’re here.
I’ve already started getting [...]

…that you knew what the next big thing was…it wasn’t. This article makes a point about web 2.0 making its way into ‘has-been’ status, with the next revolution being around spatially tagged information. It’s fascinating watching the technology – and more importantly, how we use it – evolve. Where Web 2.0 made information participatory, the [...]

A ‘quick win’ idea out of last week’s session is “The Studio”; transforming the usual workspace of the production person into an open, interactive and transparent studio, so that session participants can see their deliverables as a living work-in-progress that is being built throughout the session.

We’ve taken a first cut at it in the Toronto [...]

This week was a humbling one – in the very best of ways – as I got the chance to see, once again, the intelligence, creativity and experience of the team that gathered in Chicago for our All Hands meeting. I feel like I’ve come out of the week with a whole laundry list of [...]