Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.

You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.