My recent posts focused on how the DISC personality model could be used as a lens to step into the shoes of your participants as you create your experience. Now I’m going to switch from examining participants to examining activities so that I can talk about modes. It’s possible there’s another term...
(For the first part of this post see here.) Creating Experiences with DISC in Mind So how do you design an experience that all types will enjoy? Here’s a few suggestions. Don’t. Pick a personality type and serve that personality type. It’s hard to be all things to all people. This is why there’s so...
After a long hiatus on blogging, I'm back! The craziness that was last year has calmed down and I'm committed to getting back posting twice a week again. Thanks for your patience. :) I'm going to do some longer-form posts and split them up into more digestible chunks. Here's the first part of my tho...
The Eureka Room will have its last day at the Cesar Chavez location on September 24th. It was definitely a difficult decision, but looking back it's important for me to remember that the intent was to throw it out there and see what happens and learn from it. I've learned a lot and will be documenti...
When I was in college and my early 20's a party consisted of just people and drinks. There was no fancy food spread or cocktail contraptionery. As I got older, parties became "tastings" or "soirees" and had things like chocolate fountains and clean bathrooms. Another thing that happened was: less pa...
After over 250,000 words and consistently posting every Tuesday and Friday for over two years, I fell off the horse and haven't posted in over a month. After the huge amount of work and cost followed by great the disappointment that was SXSW and then getting covid, I was feeling really burned out. A...
I recently finished Nobel Prize winning Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow . Many other behavioral psychology authors owe a debt to this book and his research. I'm not going to review or sumarize the book here. I want to talk about what it's like to read this book, and many other books like t...
I'd say at least half of our visitors to the Eureka Room come from online searches. I do a combination of Google Ads (generally terrible) and other local tourist sites (generally ok). I also have this blog that promotes things to do in Austin. I finally started getting some decent stats on how much...
After three years of successfully avoiding and fending it off, covid finally got me. This post is short because I've been really out of it.
Most of the writing on chatbots/ChatGPT/AI is focused on potential "big" changes: putting lawyers, programmers, and the "creative" class out of work. A second category of examination by the media focuses on how it will help humans "create" and be a "copilot" and reduce tasks that no one likes, such...