If you’re in DC on Tuesday night, please come out to the Avalon Theater in Chevy Chase for what promises to be a fascinating conversation with Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman about their fantastic new book, Nurtureshock.You’ll hear why you shouldn’t praise your kids but should should let them lie, why it’s OK for siblings […]
I’ll be taking a hiatus from blogging for the rest of the month, as I finish off a few projects and gear up for a busy fall and winter.If you’re curious about what’s in the works, and why I’ve been squirreled away in the boiler room of Pink, Inc., for much of the last six
Here’s one that’s hard to categorize. In Durham, North Carolina, a few neighbors distressed at cars ripping through their traffic circle took signage duties into their own hands and posted the sign below.Is this emotional intelligence (“Made you look!”)? Or is this a threat from a bunch of vigilantes (“Slow your butt down ’cause I’m
Carl Webber sends this terrific sign from Epping, New Hampshire and reported in the Manchester Union-Leader.It’s a classic example of emotionally intelligent signage: It aims to bring compliance with the rule (don’t speed through construction sites) by encouraging empathy on the part of the sign viewer. Added bonus: Some of these signs replace “Dad” with
While I’m absolutely, positively in favor of colleges that assign their incoming freshman class one book to read, I’m intrigued by what the University of Pennsylvania is doing this year.As Real Clear Arts reports, “Instead of reading a common book, to be discussed on campus, freshmen have been asked to study and be ready to
Nicolae Halmaghi sends, via Fubiz, these examples of emotionally intelligent signage, seen on the streets of Elm Grove, Wisconsin.
I’m a little late to this party, I fear, but Maira Kalman’s paean to Ben Franklin and the power of invention is one of the best things I’ve read on the web in long time.
In 2008, “for the first time, consumers spent more time with media they paid for, like books or cable television, than with primarily ad-supported media, like newspapers and magazines.” (Source: NY Times, citing a Veronis Suhler Stevenson report)
I wish I were half as insightful and one-eighth as funny as Scott Adams. (via Dilbert.com with a HT to Becky Blanton)
