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A blog about my work, where international development meets tech, and my life, where food, books, design, dogs, and friends (and the occasional pig) make appearances.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

The zeal of the immigrant: the pain of what we have left behind

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I know you might be tired of hearing about immigration. Or if you hear about it you want to focus on the dire situation at hand. I get that,...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Cultural appropriation--I get it today

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Sometimes realizations come to you at the weirdest times. As the brainstorming facilitators always tell you, there are no bad ideas (well no...
Thursday, April 01, 2010

Innovation: top-down and bottom-up smackdowns

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I know I can sometimes come off as ideologically wedded to the bottom-up approach. It's true, I like the idea of bottom-up--it sits well...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Design Thinking, Part II

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So my few loyal readers will know that given a choice, I'll always opt for working with my hands --I'll make it or fix it or refurbi...
Monday, October 19, 2009

A matter of faith

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GlobalGiving was founded on the realizations that: there were entirely too many potential social entrepreneurs all over the world that neede...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

Design Thinking

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Yesterday as I felt compelled to defend why I was repairing my 99 cent gardening gloves instead of buying a new pair, as Dennis suggested, t...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Truck envy, or the way we justify things

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This weekend we had brunch with an old colleague of ours we hadn't seen for over 10 years. What do you know but he's gone and bought...
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An intellectual dilletante, but feel passionately about a few things: the Russian transition and nurturing potential in people. The last is why I've devoted the last 6 years of my life to bringing GlobalGiving to life.
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