My working definition of "passion":
Passion is that thing you finally get to do when you come home, exhausted from your day job.
It's relentless, systemic tweaking, hour after hour, long after the rest of the world gave up on the day.
Your passion commits paradigm violence and engages in intellectual gentrification.
Passion is your insanity... your personal pathogen.
Infect others. Infect them frequently.
The rest be damned....
The week (i.e., week 2 of my mini-sabbatical) was low-key. Spent a little time working on organizing and setting up goals via OKRIER: My technique borrows from the OKR framework used at Google. ...except my version is OKRier! O = Objectives KR = Key Results I = Initiatives E = Execution R = Review
So, today marks the end of my first week of a month-long break between gigs. I'll have more to say about my job transition in the coming days, but for now, I'll leave it as it is: I exist in a liminal space. I'm
I'm in Austin over the 4th of July weekend to visit family. Every time I come back to Texas I have incredibly mixed feelings about how this town is metastasizing away from Richard Florida's utopian vision of a "Creative Class rising." He predicted Austin
Today we launched a new MIT Museum website, and started our 100 day countdown to the opening of the Museum in its new building at Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA (October 2! If you're in Boston around that time, hit me up and I'll make sure