Michael Pollan and John Mackey LIVE AND IN CONCERT

Tonight I saw Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and his arch-nemesis John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, live on stage in Berkeley. At some point, the webcast will be made available here. Okay, so I’m overplaying the arch-nemesis bit, the series of open letters between Michael Pollan and John Mackey, begun by [...]

Handsome family

Stacy’s brother Mike, and his wife Lara visited us this past week. We had a great time with them, showing them all around the Bay Area (and them showing themselves the delights of Napa). We took this photo at the end of the week, and, well, I’m pleased with the picture.

Even more on No Job Titles

Quite a bit back, I wrote on the subject of “No Job Titles.” The subject has come up again within Adaptive Path, as Todd’s post shows. There’s also been discussion on internal mailing lists, which prompted me to write the following: I hate job titles. I wish we could no longer have them for two [...]

peterme’s 2007 US tour

In the next few months, I’m traveling all around North America: Next week (Feb 19-23): Minneapolis, MN March 9-13: Austin, TX (for South by Southwest) March 22-26: Las Vegas (for the IA Summit) April 12-14: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (for CapCHI) April 15-20: New York, NY (networking and Gel Conference) May 17 (and probably time around [...]

Go See Children of Men

I finally got around to seeing Children of Men last night, and if you’ve been considering seeing it, are on the fence, I implore you to go and catch it in a theater before it disappears. It’s a good film, and a cinematographic treat. You will definitely lose something if you wait to see it [...]

Jakob Jumps The Shark

In the distant past, I would laud Jakob when he was being pilloried by the masses. But then, Jakob’s brand of rhetoric moved away from reasoned discussion of design, and he started venturing into areas he has no expertise in, such as ROI. Scott Hirsch and I tore apart his pathetically flimsy “Usability ROI” report, [...]

Without me, there is no Flickr

Today on stage I had the pleasure of interviewing Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr. What I didn’t relate was how Caterina met Stewart Butterfield, her husband (and co-founder of Flickr) at a party in my house (I think it was 2001). You’re welcome.

Two things I’m thinking about

Adam recently wrote how “You can no longer safely assume that your product will stand alone”, and how it needs to recognize the ecosystem in which it is placed. This accords with my “Stop Designing Products” presentation (which I’ve since updated and gave at UIE’s Web App Summit). There are two ways that products can [...]

I Observe Sausage Production

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here, but last September, I became President at Adaptive Path. (Jesse is President, too. But we don’t call ourselves “co-Presidents.” It’s just that neither of us is *the* President. Anyway.) I’ve had quite a few conversations about what it’s like to be President, how my responsibilities and activities have [...]

Blogging while being filmed about the word “blog.”

This is a bit of a lark. I’m at the Computer History Museum, and I’m being taped for a show called the “Joy of Lex,” which will be about the coining of different words. So, I’m blogging while talking about “blog.” Sometaithurts.

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