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Connecting the Dots

“You can’t con­nect the dots look­ing for­ward; you can only con­nect them look­ing back­wards. So you have to trust that the dots will some­how con­nect in your future. You have to trust in some­thing — your gut, des­tiny, life, kar­ma, what­ev­er. This approach has nev­er let me down, and it has made all the dif­fer­ence […]

Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies and iPods

This is very enter­tain­ing to watch. In this TED Talk, magi­cian Mar­co Tem­pest uses three iPods as props to dis­cuss truth and lies, art and emo­tion. I can’t imag­ine how long it took to exe­cute this per­fect­ly!

Hello 2011!

Wow. I can’t believe I have not post­ed any­thing for four months! Since start­ing school, this blog has moved to the bot­tom of my pri­or­i­ty list. I don’t like to just repost infor­ma­tion with­out writ­ing a lit­tle to go along with it. How­ev­er, with no time to work on any­thing that was not direct­ly relat­ed […]

A Map of My Work Life

After a very slow day at work, I decid­ed to kill some time by map­ping out my work his­to­ry just like Adam Richard­son did in his post “Map­ping My Work Life” on frog design’s design mind blog.

What is this?

This blog is a place for me (Gretchen Chern) to gath­er all the arti­cles, videos, inter­views, books etc. that I find inspir­ing. I’m main­ly doing this for myself, as I am soon ven­tur­ing into the world of design man­age­ment. The process by which I used to gath­er this infor­ma­tion was to email myself inter­est­ing links, […]