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Annotation

San Francisco: urban annotation
How to annotate the location of sprinklers in the park? And what happens when the lawn mower has a memory of what has been placed …



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12 Oct 2012

Don’t Get Mad. Change the Rules.

01 Oct 2012



Don’t get mad. Change the rules. The biggest frustration of using ZipCar is that the vehicle that you’ve booked has not been returned on time. Standing …
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Personal/Intern

01 Oct 2012

In: San Francisco
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I’m looking for a SF based intern or interns to work a day+ a week on various personal exploratory side-projects and administrative tasks. Send a …
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Yesterday’s Office: About Last Night

The conversation started three hours into the journey and proceeded with a rhythm set by the motion of the train, overlaid with second languages and …
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Let’s Agree That I Don’t Know You

26 Aug 2012



Encountered a nice touch on returning from a business trip to urbn hotel Shanghai, where on arrival the receptionist refused to take my credit card …
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Profiting from Loss, Theft & Other Sustainable Business Models

07 Jun 2012



I had the good fortune to lose my iPhone 4 this week, left in a taxi whilst juggling small child, the usual thing. In China …
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Unexpected Profit Centers

07 Jun 2012

In: Singapore
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Unexpected Profit Centers Somewhere in Cupertino a bean counter has a little shrine to Visa and MasterCard. Whilst the iPhone has helped redefine the ‘mobile phone’ in …
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Flip It

01 Jun 2012

How we identify ourselves and what we get for identifying ourselves. Flip it: everyone and everything is by default identified: what is taken away by …
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The Networked Urban Environment

08 May 2012

In: Shanghai
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Imagine never having to look for a parking space ever again. An essay here.
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The (Autonomous) Crowd That Gathers

04 Apr 2012

In: Shanghai
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A natural scene the world over – where the synchronicity and flow of the street is interrupted by a breaking of the formal and informal …
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