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Location Shifting
Built-in redundancy for this ZipCar door unlocking: through the ZipCar card; mobile phone app; and via remote unlock (when cellular coverage/battery, and broken screen allow).
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Airport Textures
The plusses of travel tempered by being in a airport after midnight on a friday night. Some airports feel like the set of resident evil – with long blank corridors, trundling mechanics, and the...
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The Value of Used Objects
Gazelle.com appealing to base instincts feels very much like its 2005 all over again. The perceived and actual value for used objects? What happens when you know the real-time market rate for...
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Crime Stats
The simple idea that you can leave an object and return to find it vandalised.
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Toe or Be Towed
The definition of a “walk-off” in a world of autonomous vehicle mobility? Discovering your vehicle has strayed beyond social/legal norms while you are away.
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Bus Detail
San Francisco bus interior. The day-to-day interactions that inform our sense of balance, our appreciation of appropriate colour palettes, textures, wear.
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View From
Presentation on research, in a law firm of all places, with the upside of a decent view of downtown San Francisco.
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Print Love
We’ll be sharing the research In The Hands of God: Risk and Savings in Afghanistan next week. Join myself and Mark in a CGAP hosted event at the World Bank in DC, 28th February. RSFP here.
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A Fear of Blurb, Unleashed.
One of the unexpected benefits of writing a book has been the opportunity to think and learn about the publishing process. In the past month I’ve reached out to a few people for book cover blurbs....
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The Life Span of Objects
Bought a pack of diamond drill bits for going through rock and stone – experimenting with some detailing on the D3 design. The drill-bits came with the following no-bullshit instructions: “Always use...
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Drone Unfriendly Skies
The geography and infrastructure that supports or detracts from the ability of autonomous things to move around.
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Fresh to the Door
The ways in which delivery from production to the home shelf can be automated. In a world of known demand + spatial awareness + autonomous delivery what role for centralised depositories of products?
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A Data Science Experiment
Studio D Radiodurans works with creative thinkers, strategists and data scientists. How would you design the following experiment?
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On Writing The Field Study Handbook
The The Field Study Handbook is taking shape. Rituals. A fresh fresh brew. Every day, for the past three years, at least an hour spent writing. No distractions. Often jet lagged, occasionally...
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