The Far Half of the Nose: What the Meta-Nose Can’t Compress

Bill Buxton's "long nose of innovation" is the standard antidote to breakthrough mythology. A technology that seems to arrive overnight has almost always been gestating, quietly and invisibly, for decades — a long flat nose — before it reaches the steep cliff of adoption that everyone mistakes for the invention. The mouse took roughly thirty … Continue reading The Far Half of the Nose: What the Meta-Nose Can’t Compress

How to Give People Permission: A Practical Guide to Being the Kind of Presence That Lets Other People Loosen Up

Who this is for: Anyone who has stood at the edge of a room wishing it were warmer, livelier, more alive — and suspected they might be the one who could change it but didn't know how. Useful for parties and dinners, work offsites, group trips, neighborhoods, scenes, and the recurring events people build to … Continue reading How to Give People Permission: A Practical Guide to Being the Kind of Presence That Lets Other People Loosen Up