Author name: Dan Pink

I’ve been using 37Signals’s Ta-Da list application recently. It’s an excellent and elegant way to share to-do lists. Best of all, it’s free.

— DIY museums. The Cooper-Hewitt is about to let online museum goers curate their own exhibitions. Linda Hales has the story in her always excellent weekly design column. — Corn in the USA. More evidence of the ethanol boom. — Brain fitness in Japan. “Forget the idea that being good at computer games is a

The NY Times writes about IDEO’s work redesigning one of Marriott’s extended-stay hotels. The firm toppled the conventional wisdom about what these guests wanted by recording side conversations during focus groups and by engaging in IDEO’s typical brand of deep-dive ethnography. Worth reading.

Welcome to all the U.K. visitors who have come to the site after seeing today’s piece in the Sunday Times. If you’re interested, Amazon.co.uk has the U.K. edition of A Whole New Mind here.

That’s what Diego Rodriguez says, so it must be true. Read his smart column here.

“Green is the new red, white, and blue,” says Tom Friedman in a column about the political benefits (yes, benefits) of hiking the gas tax. Man, I wish I’d thought of that line! Friedman is riffing on this poll, which says that Americans will tolerate a gas tax if it’s “framed” in terms of national

Today’s must-read is this Washington Post story about how people are using iMixes — user-created song selections on iTunes — for dealing with hurt, bereavement, and loss.

Lots of travel and lots of deadlines have meant not a lot of blogging lately. Sorry. But I did want to point to the two best articles I’ve read in the last week — both of which concern housing. The first was Christopher Caldwell’s essay in the New York Times Magazine in which he shreds

Steve Richards has posted a very cool

Today’s NY Times has a great story about a whole-minded guy named Brian Bannister, who’s both a successful photographer and one of the New York Mets’ top pitching prospects.