Note: This post was drafte on 5/27/2021 and finalized today. Last week I got a lot done. This week has not been as productive. Let's review what's been going on. I'm not clear on my process and the steps are getting jumbled. I'm going to discuss my development process. My Development Process Two com...

I recently found out that the book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion has been updated for the first time in about 20 years. This is a fanastic book and by all accounts a classic that has influenced and affected all other sorts of marketing and influence books, as well as how companies do busin...

I recently tried to take the Touchpoint Template from the book Designing Experiences and attempted to create an experience with it. It was a failed attempt but I think I learned some things. The Touchpoint Template First, what is the Touchpoint Template? It’s Duerden and Rossman’s model of a touchpo...

Here’s the type of overly-complicated thing I’m prone to create when I don’t have to worry about profit and don’t care much about my own personal suffering.  I live in Austin. My friends Matt and Vianca live in Austin. We are friends with a couple, Kate & Andy and Mark, who all lived in Sea...

One of the things I learned in Priya Parker’s fantastic book “The Art of Gathering” is how you might stretch an event that is an hour long into a guest experience that lasts for many hours, days, weeks or longer. And potentially it could take less money, effort, and time to do so. How is this possib...

I've been fortunate to be able to travel to a lot of different places. While I generally like to feel like I'm in another world, unique unto itself, there's another travel style I find frequently: those that incessantly compare everything they see and experience to something they've already done or...

The mission of The Eureka room is to help people feel more joy through charming absurdity. (Note: I'm still slowly working out a more specific definition of "people". Right now my best wording might be "participatory experience seekers"). So what do I mean by this phrase, "charming absurdity"? These...

During the pandemic I’ve realized even more the power of reflection. Reflection could very well be the main reason that I’m able to accomplish the things I accomplish. What Does Reflection Mean? By reflecting, I mean looking back on things that happened and things that are currently happening and tr...

Over the last couple weeks I've had some friends come over and test new programs. They're not so much programs, as ideas I've cobbled together to test the mechanics. In fact, I call it mechanic testing rather than beta testing. Test groups were: Leila, Brian, Alix, and AndreaWendy, Ross, and Melissa...

Note: This post was written on 3/1 and finalized today. I believe many people fail in their attemps to make new habits and accomplish things because they set up rules and strategies at the beginning of a project but then don’t go back to review and update them frequently enough. I want to share an e...