Back in April I began the process of switching the Eureka Room website from Squarespace to WPEngine. My goal was just to reproduce the old site and I found a template that looked like it would do fine. Easy-peasy because the original site was (more or less) just one page. But then I had trouble with...

Note: This post is part of my "Museums Project", a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. If you don’t move in slow motion you get kicked out. The nice thing about this rule is that you can easily apply it to existing museums and other businesses without a lot of setup. All you need is a...

Note: this post was drafted on 6/24/2021 and finalized today. Current Status of The Eurkea Room The new design for the end-to-end Eureka Room experience now has a waiting room with a tropical feel. It’s mellow bossa-nova-esque. Visitors watch a video that explains the logistics and then we go down a...

Why Stating Your Principles Matters When you bring someone on board to work on an existing project it's very important they get an understanding of the project: the mission, the tools, the tone, what it is and what it is not. Without this clarity new people will use a combination of guesses and assu...

The internet is great to learn specific things. Such as: keyboard shortcuts or how to fix a toilet. But the internet is probably at its least useful when you are trying to learn a lot about a subject that you know nothing about and you want to gain a better overall understand of a domain. Besides th...

Note: This post is part of my "Museums Project", a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. I’ll admit up front that this museum is emotion-specific: It's created to trigger the feelings like annoyance and longing. It is not a museum for those without much self-control or those with an obs...

Note: This post is part of my "Museums Project", a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. I find the idea of “authenticity” and “realness” curious. People go to great lengths to see “the original” of something even when there's perfectly good ways to experience an identical replica. This...

Note: This post is part of my "Museums Project", a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. I find accents fascinating. But other than this student project I found, I have never seen a museum for them. There are 6500 languages in the world and there is a National Museum of Languages (which...

It’s almost always enjoyable to me to read a well-written book on a topic I haven’t considered much authored by someone who has considered it a whole lot. Grammar for a Full Life is one of those books. The first thing you should know is that it’s not really about grammar. In fact, he gives just one...

Note: I drafted this post on 9/1/2020 and finalized today. Jeff Olson's The Slight Edge Overview One Sentence Summary: If you do easy things frequently they add up over time. Scope of book: Generally narrow. Touches on some related topics but typically for just a few pages and not enough to really g...