Meghan Lazier

"Example moves the world more than doctrine. –Arthur Miller"

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:03:05 -0500

“Example moves the world more than doctrine. –Arthur Miller”

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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:24:28 -0500

Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:27:57 -0500

Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?

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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:22:38 -0500

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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:19:40 -0500

Indifference is death.

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:40:59 -0500

Indifference is death.

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Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:00:06 -0500

"My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:54:00 -0500

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My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn’t designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. The big design problem is designing your life. It’s by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.

- Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2, Published 2000.

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- Found via itstartswith.com

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:15:27 -0500

The thing is, we still live in a world that's filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity -- we have an obligation. An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing.

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:31:08 -0500

The thing is, we still live in a world that's filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity -- we have an obligation. An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing.

"I’m gonna let you in on a mystical truth: your big break is probably not buried in the “short-term..."

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:00:06 -0500

“I’m gonna let you in on a mystical truth: your big break is probably not buried in the “short-term gigs” section on Craigslist. Sorry to crush your dreams. Now close that tab before you catch a disease.”

- via Alexandra Franzen

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Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:28:53 -0500

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Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:44:44 -0500

PBS Off Book is a great video series that “explores...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:00:06 -0500

PBS Off Book is a great video series that “explores cutting edge art and the people that make it.” The videos offers a great primer on design concepts. I’ve watched the Off Book video on product design and steampunk. This is a great series - I’ll definitely find time to watch the others.

Dieter Rams’ “Ten Commandments” of Good Design

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:00:05 -0500

Good design is innovative

Good design makes a product useful

Good design is aesthetic

Good design helps us to understand a product

Good design is unobtrusive

Good design is honest

Good design is durable

Good design is consequent to the last detail

Good design is concerned with the environment

Good design is as little design as possible

"The truly “kick-ass” people in our organizations, don’t wait for permission to lead, innovate, or..."

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:00:05 -0500

“The truly “kick-ass” people in our organizations, don’t wait for permission to lead, innovate, or strategize. They do what is right for the firm, regardless of status. They bring a combination of “curiosity and passion” which Thomas Friedman once said “are key components in a world where information is readily available to everyone and global markets reward those people.” There’s a different set of rules and assumptions by which we’ll thrive and succeed in this new, networked society, and it comes down to this: while you can be a rebel or a subversive without being a leader, you can rarely be an effective leader without also having a little bit of rebel in you.”

- via Nilofer Merchant.

"Social innovation needs practitioners who are creative, visual, passionate, broadly curious,..."

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:26:04 -0500

“Social innovation needs practitioners who are creative, visual, passionate, broadly curious, generalists, integrators, listeners, systems thinkers and doers, and people who know how to create lives filled with both success and purpose. It needs designers.”

- Cheryl Heller

"Done is better than perfect." - Ben Barry

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:09:44 -0500

"Done is better than perfect." - Ben Barry

Consumption vs. Creation

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:26:31 -0500

In a typical day, are you spending more time consuming - watching online videos, reading blogs or books, watching TV? Or are you spending more time creating - writing, starting meaningful conversations, taking action on projects?

Stop consuming so much. Start creating more.

- ML

A Manifesto for Growth

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:00:05 -0500

Incomplete Manifesto for Growth from Bruce Mau Design

Some of my favorites:

#2 - Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.

#12 - Keep moving.
The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.

#14 - Don’t be cool.
Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.

#33 - Take field trips.
The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.

Enjoy the full manifesto.

What are some of your favorites?