Create Your Own To-Do App

by Rebecca Thorman on July 307 Comments
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I like ideas. Others might say I need focus. So, here are some old ones cluttering my head. Ideas are free. Execution isn’t. Take my idea, let it live long and prosper in your capable hands. Tell me when you’ve brought it to fruition. I’ll be the first to promote it.

Productivity systems are incredibly personal. What works for one person might work for another… if only it was tweaked a bit. Create a platform that allows the user to pull together different modules to create their perfect to-do app.

Much in the same way bloggers add widgets to their sites, to-do app users could easily add modules like “Weekly Lists,” “Goals,” and “Next Week’s Tasks” in a proprietary editor to create their custom productivity app.

Taliesin

by Rebecca Thorman on July 140 comments
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For the 4th of July weekend, Ryan and I went to Taliesin in Spring Green, WI, which was Frank Lloyd Wright’s home during the summer months. This was my third time there. I wrote a bit about my fascination with Wright here. We weren’t allowed to take interior shots, but I took some good exterior photos using my iPhone camera.

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This is Romeo and Juliet in the background.

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The meandering entrance to the Taliesin home.

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Back of the house.

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Some of the gardens. This is looking towards Wright’s bedroom.

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You get a bit of the sense of how the house is built into the hill here.

Originality & Influence in Personal Branding, Architecture and Walmart

by Rebecca Thorman on July 1314 Comments

We are told to show streaks of our soul, to be original. To show irreverence. And especially, place your mark on the world. Eschew tradition.  And while you should be yourself, you should also, somewhere along the line – if you’re lucky, between high school and turning thirty – find that originality is only the beginning.

Renowned architect Frank  Lloyd Wright is known for pioneering one of the most important movements in architecture. His mastery of the compression and exaltation of space has little to do with inspiring awe (although that it does), and much more to do with a space that is living.