March 24, 2009 – 12:22 pm
Hey Crew At 99designs,
I’m a fan of your work. Your site, sitepoint, is a great resource to designers around the world.
Over the last year, slowly, you have been drug into the spec work conversation.
I don’t think you want to be here. I really don’t. I don’t see you as a middle man trying to make [...]
December 14, 2008 – 1:33 pm
Jeremiah Owayg wrote a post about spec work, and in a comment I asserted that spec work leads to theft.
I’m curious if I am right about this, so let’s put the numbers out there:
$3000 for a laptop (could be cheaper, but assuming a MacBook Pro, which I am typing this on)
$1700 for Creative Suite 4
$400 [...]
September 30, 2008 – 9:44 pm
I was sitting at Trident, the usual place for me to drink some quality tea and think about what to do with my week, when Michael Tseng (who was also an Interaction Designer at CP+B) and I got into a conversation about the latest trends (the social echo chamber, iPhone app sales and recent acquisitions [...]
Four years ago today I moved to Boulder.
Wow.
Why did I move here? I graduated college in Rhode Island, didn’t want to move back to Oregon. I threw a dart on the map, and it landed in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado. I called my sister, who had been to Boulder once on a road trip, to [...]
January 3, 2008 – 12:57 pm
I didn’t set any goals last year, and I achieved every one of them.
I didn’t achieve any I didn’t set as well.
2007 was a huge year for me. The beginning of the year had me finish up a contract with Confluence Commons, work on Endoze Design a bit more and finally fold [...]
