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Strategic Questions for an Accelerating World

colin — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:41:59 +0000

I wrote an article for the HBR, it’s posted here.

While it’s an honor to try my hand at writing for such a large/broad audience, it’s a lot more difficult than I expected. Feedback appreciated.

Decision By Design

colin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:07:10 +0000

A piece I co-wrote with Ryan for Rotman magazine was just published in their winter issue. It’s called Decision By Design, I put a copy of the article up here here if you want to check it out.

It’s my first time writing for a magazine. Everyone in the process was really helpful and supportive, but it still turned out to be a lot harder than I thought. If you have a chance to read it, I’d love to know what you think.

Founder’s Journey

colin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:11:37 +0000

This Monday I had the pleasure of speaking at MIT in a class called The Founder’s Journey. Ken Zolot is running a really cool seminar class out of the engineering school that gives student a view into what it’s like to start a business (without having to slave through tons of pre-requisite classes in the business school).

I met Ken at IDEO’s Big Reset event this summer, and he asked me to give a similar/shorter talk to one I gave at TBR. It’s sort of a rambling run through human-centered design, identity, experiences, participation, T-Pain, Stonehenge, etc.

Even thought the slides don’t capture most of the details of the talk, you can check out the deck here. (I pulled the very few IDEO-related bits since that would compel someone to post the file to slideshare.net….which I don’t get, but whatevs.)

Business in Beta

colin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:48:59 +0000

Sort of not new news, but I semi-published some thinking through work a few weeks ago. Nothing that major, but I’ve been writing about some similar stuff around this blog, so I thought I’d make the connection for those that are interested. Check it out, let me know what you think.

Business in Beta.