Note: This post was drafted on 2/22/2021 and finalized today. When you go to a business of a known type you have a general idea of what to expect. You know what to expect at a restaurant, a bar, a department store, an escape room, a baseball game, etc.  But at the Eureka Room you have no idea w...

Narrative vs Story in The Eureka Room For the purposes of this post, “Narrative” will mean the actual objective facts and “Story” will mean an individual’s subjective interpretation of what they have perceived. When I design a Eureka Room program, I’m not just considering the narrative. I’m thinking...

Note: This post was written on 2/3/2021 and posted today. The Messy Homes Tour was last night. I think it went well and multiple people wrote to tell me it was fun. Despite testing nearly everything ahead of time, we had some tech hiccups. Tech issues in meetings seem to be commonplace, both online...

Note: This post was originally written on 2/7/2021 and finalized today. I’m drafting this post later than almost any other post I’ve drafted. I’ve had a long day and I’m really tired and just want to eat, maybe watch a show and then go to bed. But instead I’m writing for my blog.  And after thi...

Today is Easter, 2021. I was looking through my long list of post topics to write and this one was the first I saw. It seemed appropriate. It was March, 2020. The pandemic had confined most of my friends and me inside our homes. We already had celebrated St. Patrick’s day on zoom and I wanted to do...

Note: This idea is work in progress. It's The Feelings, Stupid! I’ve been simultaneously creating experiences and developing my process for creating experiences. In the last year it became apparent to me that when I create experiences I start with the feelings I want people to have when they are par...

Note: This post was drafted on 5/11/2021 and finalized today. Today I will have my friends Matt and Vianca over to do some very preliminary testing of a couple new programs, tentatively called “Laughter 2.0 Caw” and “Synchronized Chanting”. I’m sure they’ll have better names later, but that’s the sh...

Let me tell you about the greatest theme park you’ve probably never heard of. I first came upon in while reading a Wired magazine article about a robot-run hotel in Japan.  Most of the article was dedicated to the hotel and its robots. But it also (somewhat casually) mentioned that it was part...

Note: This post was drafted on 3/15 and finalized today. Today is the beginning of two new eras. The first era is the “Second Year of Pandemic”. Today marks the first day that I started staying in my house. Not all the time. But a whole lot more than I have ever wanted. But now I’ve received my firs...

Note: This post contains some spoilers about the online program Singularity Now! If you are currently in the program or want to be in the program and don’t want to ruin the fun, don’t read this post Singularity Now! is a mysterious and multi-step preparedness program to get you ready for the inevita...