Design Fiction - Category - 2012 Internet of Things Awards One of the thought leaders in this category Julian Bleecker sums the topic up well in his essay "Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction" with these words: "I proposed “design fiction” in order to think about how design can tell thoughtful, speculative stories through objects.........I decided on fiction not so much to create objects that are for storytelling, but to create objects that help think through matters-of-concern. I am interested in working through materialized thought experiments. Design fictions are propositions for new, future things done as physical instantiations rather than future project plans done through PowerPoint." "Smart, creative, imaginative ways of linking ideas to their materialization really do matter, because the future matters, and we will use whatever means possible to do create these better worlds, including the simultaneous deployment of science, fact, fiction and design." Ear Hacking David Chatting More Information Pareidolic Robot
The Essential Missing Half of Getting Things Done Since I’ve been using David Allen’s Getting Things Done system for a few years now, I’ve made many refinements to it to suit my own style. The most important has been linking the low-level project-action focus of GTD with my own high-level focus on purpose and goals. My personal GTD system starts with purpose. At that level I have a one-sentence statement of my life’s purpose plus a longer mission statement. The next level down is goals. Now beneath the level of goals, we get into more standard GTD. And below that level we have next actions. I love the standard GTD system, but it’s a low-level system. What’s missing from GTD though is the high-level part of the system. The high level element that is missing from standard GTD is, in my personal opinion, absolutely essential. To put it very simply… standard GTD will teach you how to do things right. The lack of a GTD personal leadership element is also prevalent in David Allen’s second book, Ready for Anything.
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Upper Playground | Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe - Stream & DVD Getting Silver Wholesale Jewelry Versus Quantity BuyersDo you use a good deal of alphabet beads or sterling silver charms? Do you resell them? Probabilities are you want to conserve if you can, needless to say the climbing expense of silver does not aid when you are hoping to minimize charges. So what do professionals do? They acquire wholesale! Cooking up the connected kitchen With all the attention given to home automation, you'd think that more products would be devoted to the "heart of the home." The kitchen probably has more gizmos-per-inch than any other room in the house. Yet most home connectivity efforts have left the kitchen connectivity on the back burner. The reasons are fairly obvious. [Five ways the cool stuff at CES will ruin your life and Study: Smart energy IT market growing quickly] Yet, as both a self-professed computer geek and an avid cook (what, doesn't everyone own 400 cookbooks?!) I could have given you a slide show of gizmos that somehow belong to the cooking or eating categories. My conclusion is that the vendors currently are mostly thinking-out-loud. A recipe for success What do people want their kitchen equipment to do? From the CES conversations and my own cooking-inspired experiences, I think these are among the main desires for kitchen connectivity. Reduce complexity. Integrate with other devices. Be cognizant of tech standards.
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