— Digital Ephemera & General Thinking

Costner (noun) An entrepreneur who thinks that just because he built a product, customers will come.

Dieter Rams’ ten principles to “good design”

1. Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design helps us to understand a product
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is long-lasting
8. Good design is consequent to the last detail
9. Good design is concerned with the environment
10. Good design is as little design as possible

via http://yatzer.com/as-little-design-as-possible-dieter-rams

Sir Francis Bacon –  ”I have taken all knowledge to be my province.”

I feel very much the same.  I find myself fascinated by almost any topic, and love to learn new things.  On twitter (@jmfinn) you will find me posting, commenting, and following all sorts of topics:  healthcare (I am a cancer survivor, and loathe our current insurance system which rewards quantity of care over quality), games/gamification (life should be fun, play!), marketing, start-ups, entrepreneurism books, language, film, economics, politics, food and the food system, cities and regional planning, and many, many, more.  (Subjects I have omitted, please don’t feel slighted, there are just too many of you to name.)

I find and take inspiration from all areas, and try to apply to these ideas to my current projects as well as future projects.

I’m setting a personal goal to undertake twelve collaborative projects in the next twelve months.  What form these might take; personal, professional or civic/community oriented, and with whom have yet to be determined.  The timeline, other than the twelve months, is also open.  One a month?  Or perhaps several at a time?  The only stipulation is that I want them to positively impact both me, and those around me.  I want them to have a happiness multiplier effect,  make the world a little better, and make a few more people smile a bit more often.

I am already involved in one, and have three others in the works, so that leaves 8 to go.  I am actively, and passively, seeking partners for these, so if you’re interested in doing something together, please reach out to me here.  Updates as I plan, start, and finish these collaborations to follow.

A work in progress; this page and my life.