There’s something I have to metaphorically get off my chest. You literally don’t have a clue what “literally” actually means. Literal is defined as: actual; absolute. Literally is defined as: in the explicit meaning of the word; without embellishment or exaggeration; not as an idiom or metaphor. I’m not the first person to plead this [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Digressions'
Whit Hour – Week 14
August 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Whit Hour
Thank you so much to the ~27 people who showed up for the fourteenth week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me. Tune in every Monday night from 10-11pm Eastern Time at http://www.livestream.com/whithour. Whit [...]
Tags:Clients·Consulting·Coworking·Digressions·New York·User Research
Fun Times in Mini-Apple-Us
July 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Digressions, Travel
When I was asked to speak at An Event Apart Minneapolis, I thought, “An Event Apart, yes! Minneapolis, whatever.” I wasn’t expecting much from my trip to the Twin Cities — but I was dead wrong. Flying over Minnesota for the first time a week ago today, all I could see was a flat expanse [...]
Tags:Digressions·Pleasure·Travel
Being a godmother is like being a user experience designer
May 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Pleasure, Strategy, User Experience
On April 18, 2010, Griffin James Lam Konig was born at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasett, NY, weighing in at 7 lbs 13 oz. Griffin’s mom Donna is the 39-year-old daughter of my childhood babysitter Theresa (who I’ve always called T-T). The day after Griffin came home from the hospital, twenty-seven years after Theresa [...]
I am (more than?) a bunch of adjectives
January 16th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Digressions
I think like a lot of us, I have an incessant need to see myself reflected by others in order to believe that I am who I think I am. Positively and negatively. I save adjectives like souvenirs, reminders of when I got them and from whom. I wear them as badges, as armor. When [...]
Tags:Digressions·Realizations
