“At our “Back to School” orientation, we set up a display—various types of lunch boxes, including inexpensive canvas bags, to carry the lunch, leftover plastic containers from used grocery store items have a new life when transporting fruit or chips or cheese chunks, thermoses carry hot foods (even dinner leftovers), stainless steel or plastic water bottles, old silverware from thrift stores (so you’re not worried if they don’t make it home), cloth napkins, wax bags for sandwiches. While a good thermos runs about $10, the rest can be cobbled together and re-used/re-washed/re-filled every day.”
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June 2010
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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
” —Steve Jobs (via youmightfindyourself)
“AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts to cap the underwater flow of oil, landfall is becoming more frequent, and the effects more evident.”
—Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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