The 8020 Blog

Geo-Coding Hot Dogs in New Jersey

January 22nd, 2007

If you’re trying to get your mind around what a mashup is, take a look at Platial.com and see how consumers are geocoding retail by theme and recommendation. The site is designed to enable anyone to find, create and use meaningful maps of places that matter to them. Read more »

Top 10 Characteristics of Creative Personalities

September 8th, 2006

image of a creative thinker at workDo creative people really think differently than the general population? Renowned psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has spent years investing this very notion and distills his findings in “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.” He postulates that there is one word that best describes the personality of creative people: complexity. Read more »

Time Management Is A Stupid Idea – So Why Am I Hooked?

August 29th, 2006

I think the whole idea of being able to manage time by dividing it into little pieces goes against human nature. In fact, chronobiology teaches us that different cultures experience time in different ways. Read more »

Why 100 Day Plans™ Work So Well

August 16th, 2006

100 Euro CoinI was speaking with a client today who successfully completed her first 100 Day Plan™ and I asked her about what worked and what could have been better. What I learned both surprised me and delighted at the same time. Read more »

Creative Loneliness

April 10th, 2006

alone at workIt is interesting that for a field as collaborative as ours just how much time we spend in complete isolation. I look at my weekly time sheets and am amazed at just how much time I am alone, staring at a computer screen. Read more »

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