I remember my first year after college. I scrounged my pennies to buy a rocking 66mhz Pentium 1. It was awesome. It made that lovely “glee-da-da glee-da-da-glee” sound as I went “on the internet”. I built a pretty bad website (at the time the coolest thing we’d ever seen) with my friend Kevin Bell. We [...]

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This morning I received an email from a designer who I’ve been in contact with digitally. We are connected on Facebook and have shared the occasional back and forth through it. In his email he noted that he’s just started out on his own and is finding himself discouraged by how challenging this path is. [...]

Filed under: Design Can Change, MakeFive, Projects, Start-up stories, smashlab by Eric Karjaluoto
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I’m not sure how I’m going to mess-up my kids, but I suspect I will anyway. It seems that each generation is intent on not repeating the mistakes of the one prior; nevertheless, they seem to either do so, or invent whole new ones. Either way, we can be pretty certain that no matter how [...]

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