Archive for the ‘Lights in the People Tunnel’ Category

TED Conference 2009

TED Conference 2009

Friday, August 21st, 2009 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Lights in the People Tunnel

The TED Conference in Long Beach happened a few months ago but I’m just now getting around to posting pictures from the event. (I never promised I would blog in any coherent chronological order.) For those of you familiar with the TED Conference, you can imagine how thrilled I was to be asked to form [...]

Tony Hsieh and the Pursuit of Happiness

Tony Hsieh and the Pursuit of Happiness

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 - Filed under Lights in the People Tunnel

As the world largely knows by now, there are many great things about Zappos. But what most people don’t realize is the extent to which that quest for greatness permeates their DNA. Some C-level folks talk a good game about customer and employee happiness, but Tony Hsieh (CEO) can credibly say that he’s obsessed with [...]

The Overlap Conference – Monterey, CA

The Overlap Conference – Monterey, CA

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 - Filed under Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Thinking

There were many great photographs that came out of the Overlap Conference in Monterey, CA, but none as delightful as this. A subtle but hilarious accident, this is the back of Christian Crumlish‘s balding (and brilliant) head right next to the question, “Can we replace this?” The display was about solving the world’s coffee-cup litter problem [...]

XPlane Training in St. Louis

XPlane Training in St. Louis

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 - Filed under Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Thinking

An update on the BrightSpot front: After a series of grueling interviews (look, it’s hard to be brilliant all the time), I was hired as a freelance consultant and designer with XPlane – the leading visual thinking company in the U.S – and flown out to St. Louis for a 2-day training. XPlane was one [...]

Nancy Duarte in the HOWse

Nancy Duarte in the HOWse

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 - Filed under Lights in the People Tunnel

The HOW Design Conference was in Austin this year and, while I failed to attend and therefore learned zero new design tricks, what I did get to do is spend time with Nancy Duarte. I have the pleasure of being a researcher on her forthcoming book, so I used that as leverage to force her [...]

VizThink San Jose 2009

VizThink San Jose 2009

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Recording, Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Thinking

Originally when I planned to write this post, I was going to discuss my graphic recording presentation at the VizThink Conference in San Jose, CA. But as I was going through my photographs I realized it was much more exciting to discuss Jessica Hagy, who I had the pleasure to meet, befriend, and eventually coax [...]