Noah's longer-form thinking on technology consulting, organizational challenges, and the cultural work he cares about outside the office. Posts here reflect twenty-five years of hard-won perspective.
Before the Macintosh became a household name and defined the shape of personal computing, Apple Computer released a precursor that, looking back, seems less like a consumer product and more like a transmission from an alternate timeline: the Apple Lisa. In 1983, the Lisa was ahead of its time, startling, and unreal.
Sometimes the right technology is a sign taped to a door, not another electronic device.
A proposal that Architecture education is the ultimate generalist degree: a modern, multidimensional "spatial liberal arts."
I appreciate elegantly concealed lighting and love the Vitsoe 606 shelving system so have spent the last few years experimenting with ways to discretely nestle lighting within the nooks of the system.
I currently serve on the boards of two cultural organizations: UnionDocs, a center for documentary art, and The Victorian Web, a non-profit dedicated to Victorian scholarship.
I've been building technology solutions for companies for twenty-five years. Long enough to see the same mistake repeated: teams confuse the technical problem with the real problem.
