With the Internet and social media, almost anyone can be your mentor. They don’t even need to know you exist. Just pick a person whose work you admire and follow them on the Internet. In the Mentor Focus series, I profile the people I follow online. Since discovering blogging in 2002, Darren Rowse has established […]
80/20 Your Personal Media Collections
With the amount of data being generated in our lives daily, it’s easy to let things get out of hand. At one point, I had over 4,000 articles in my “read later” list. I also had over 20,000 digital photographs sitting on my hard drive, with more added every week. Hundreds of videos sat waiting […]
Destination: Taipei, Taiwan
Between 2002 and 2005 I made several trips to Taiwan, spending most of my time in and around Taipei. 2003 SARS paranoia In early 2003, I had just graduated from college and had a scholarship opportunity to study Mandarin Chinese language in Taipei, Taiwan. It was a lucky break for me since my girlfriend at […]
Cooking the World: Thai Sticky Rice with Mangos (Mamuang Kao Nieo)
Makes 5 servings Equipment Rice cooker Small saucepan Spatula Ingredients 7oz sticky rice, soaked overnight 12oz unsweetened coconut milk 6oz coconut sugar 2tsp salt 15g granulated sugar 14g rice flour 3 tbsp water 2 mangos, peeled, pitted, and sliced Directions Drain soaked rice and cook it in a rice cooker with about 12 ounces of water. […]
Destination: Jamestown Settlement
Jamestown Settlement is a living history museum operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is located near the site of Jamestown, the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America, founded on May 14, 1607. Jamestown is perhaps most famous for the story of Pocahontas, who lived in the surrounding forest. The following […]
The Value of Curation
More than 300,000 book titles are published each year in the United States alone. About a trillion gigabytes of digital data are generated every year. Over 25 million hours of new video is uploaded to Youtube each year. There are about 1,200 coffee roasters and over 3,000 breweries in the United States alone. There are over […]