The full title to this book is Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful.  This Book and The Eureka Room I've split my thoughts on this book into two posts. One for the book itself and another on some particular passages and ideas spoke directly to...

"10x" has become a popular term in the last few years. At first it was used mostly in regards to financial ROI: investors know that start-ups are high-risk and therefore they need some of them to be big successes to make up for the many, many failures. But more recently, the 10x concept has been tak...

I've written about the dangers of "Shiny New Things" pulling you off your mission, but here I'm going to describe some common warning signals of mission-wrecking “Shiny New Things”. What are Shiny New Things? You're working on your mission. It's hard. It might not be fun. "The Resistance" smells blo...

I went to South Padre recently. About an hour outside of town was a wonderful surprise called Bobz world. We had discovered in our research before the trip, but research wasn't necessary to discover it. There was no missing the many roadside signs leading up to it.  We visited on our drive back...

My brother is planning a trip to Scotland and came across an interesting "Experience" offered on Airbnb. In case you aren't familiar, Airbnb not only allows local people to rent their homes to visitors, but now they allow local people to give tours and provide other experiences to visitors. You don'...

Note: This post is part of my “Museums Project“, a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. Museum gift shops are curious places to me. Some offer incredibly specific and relevant items like books so specific and niche in subject matter that there's no way there could be more than a few hu...

Today's post on The Museum of Diet and Exercise Fads is my 200th post! 160,000 words! I started this blog about a year and a half ago and have been able to consistently post at least twice a week (and write drafts most days). In the beginning I wasn't sure what I was going to write about exactly or...

Note: This post is part of my “Museums Project“, a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. There are so many diets. I don't mean cultural and regional diets as in "what do they eat". I mean “lose weight” and "be healthy" diets. Every single time I’m at the grocery store checkout the magaz...

The post refers to my “Secret Experimental Event Series” for Big Weekend Calendars and The Austin Events Wall Calendar. You can read more about the event series in this post. Way back in 2019 I decided to put on a series of promotional events for the wall calendar I make. In all, there were over a d...

Note: Drafted on 3/19. Finalized Today. This week I have been working on my process for developing programs. I have written many documents over the last few years on how to create programs, what to keep in mind, how to test them, etc, but still a lot of it is in my head and not even very conscious a...