Author name: Dan Pink

Check out the names of the Kansas State Library’s upcoming broadband summit and HRPS’s 2008 global conference.

Much to my surprise, the pecha-kucha presentation I did on emotionally intelligent signage has generated lots of email. (What’s pecha-kucha? Read this blog post or this Wired story). Now Jamie Baker of Memphis sends along a sign (see below) that he spotted recently. Reading its message, I have to ask: Why the heck not?

Another example of how an abundant society increases the aesthetic component of offerings in the marketplace: Latte Art. (HT: Danielle Bruno).

“A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.” — From The Dip

PowerPoint is like the weather or Dancing With the Stars: Everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything. Enter Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two European ex-pat architects in Tokyo, who’ve come up with an elegant hack. Use 20 slides. No more, no less. Each slide must be on the screen for exactly 20 seconds.

Definition: “The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.” (Source: Rick Fulmer.)

(from the NY Times, 8/27/07)

You heard it here first: Pork feet is the new sushi. As the Japan Times reports, one enterprising chef is opening a restaurant in New York with a menu that features “40 different dishes incorporating shredded pork feet and a variety of ingredients. The dishes range from Korean-style casseroles to spaghetti carbonara.” Apparently it’s all

Ooops. I’ve been working hard and haven’t had time to post. Sorry. Here’s a quick round up of some interesting things: 1. Jane Von Bergen, one of the true stars of the workforce beat, has a great piece in Sunday’s Philadelphia Enquirer about the co-working trend and some 21st century Philadelphians’ version of Ben Franklin’s