O Danny Boy

On September 11, 2001, I was on a train bound towards Manhattan as terrorist-driven planes struck the towers of the World Trade Center, which was my destination. I somehow (foolishly) managed to get to lower Manhattan where I became tangled up in the events of that horrible day. It took me more than 24 hours to get home. This is the (mostly-unaltered) account I wrote in a notebook the following day.

I’m looking for a position leading a team of designers as a creative director, director of design/UX, or VP of design in San Francisco or nearby.

My personal goals for 2011.

The roaring has stopped for me, so I’m doing something else.

Like my 40 before 40 list, I’ve put together a 50 before 50 list: 50 things I’d like to do before I turn 50.

A year ago, on my 39th birthday, I published a list of 40 things I wanted to do before I turned 40. By the end of yesterday, I finished 25.5 of them. Am I disappointed I didn’t finish all 40? A little, but the list was always aspirational, and in the last year, I’ve done at least 40 great things that weren’t on the list, some of them silly (jumping naked into the icy Baltic Sea), some of them life-changing.

I turn 39 today, and by next year, my 40th year, likely my life will be about half over. This isn’t a bad thing; I have very few regrets about how I’ve spent my one precious existance. But there is still a lot to do. I don’t fear dying, just not having lived enough. So here’s my list of things I want to accomplish in the next 365 days.

Brian Haven tagged me with a new meme to learn 16 new things about me in groups of four. So here it goes.

Year end ramblings.

Somehow, it doesn’t seem like it, but running the numbers, I traveled a lot less this year than in 2006. The raw stats are 56 days away in 2006 and only 41 in 2007. There were whole months that I stayed in San Francisco this year (January, April, May, October, December) and that only happened [...]