36 Years

Continued from The Journey Prequel On our last night in Havana I was greeted at the Hotel Riviera by Raimundo. I met Raimundo in the summer of 1974. He was vacationing with his family at the Riviera Hotel and we became friends. He found me on Facebook in early June and we planned this reunion [...]

Great advice: instead of an eight ball

Consult with the Wise Chicken to help with your tough decisions;

Visit to Sead to the mechanic

Sead- The Fascinating Mechanic–1237 39th Street in Oakland. 510-355-4600.

Cuban Poet visits Oakland

Cuban poet Pablo Armando Fernandez visited Oakland last month and held a series of readings for fans and friends.

My Favorite Bumper Sticker: “Honk the Fibonacci series if you like electronic music”

Dorai Thodla’s delightful blog made my day by destracting me from my mundain chores and leading me into the place where magic meets logic: the Fibonacci series. http://dorai.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/knowledge-spiral/ What if instead of measuring the value of our lives we measured the quality of our lives. Part of that measurement would have to be the amount [...]

Ethnographic Research

Paolo Friere, the Brazian educator once told me, “education design is 90% intiution and 10% research, but you have to spend 90% of your time researching to make sure your intuition is correct, because if it’s not, then you miss your mark entirely and accomplish nothing.” I think that moment with such a great educator [...]

Creating My Story

I’d like to be a consultant that helps people incubate innovation. That includes ethnographic research, user-centered interaction design, and helping the client reframe their questions. I do this naturally. I think my grandmother would call this a “buttinski” that’s Americanized Yiddish for “Some one that butts in.” I like to like to hear peoples’ problems [...]