Fit to Print with Andy McMillan (Episode 92)

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Andy McMillan makes things that bring people together: the Build conference, the XOXO festival, and The Manual, a series of books with thoughtful essays about design. After producing three print volumes of The Manual, he’s trying to take it to the next level, and produce something openly, broadly available across many media, that’s a collaboration… Continue reading Fit to Print with Andy McMillan (Episode 92)

Plug Me In with Mara Zepeda (Episode 91)

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Mara Zepeda is the co-founder and CEO of Switchboard, a site that lets you ask for what you need and offer what you have within a trusted community. It’s a way to more efficiently interconnect generosity, and is sometimes described as Craigslist without the creeps. I’m used to reading personal histories that have windy roads,… Continue reading Plug Me In with Mara Zepeda (Episode 91)

Mi Casa Es Su Benincasa with Sara Benincasa (Episode 90)

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Sara Benincasa is an author, comedian, writer, and outspoken advocate of LGBTQ youth, among many other hats she’s worn. She is an expert impressionist and parodist of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Sara is the author of the novel Great and the memoir/confessional, Agorafabulous!: Dispatches From My Bedroom, and her third book, the novel Believers,… Continue reading Mi Casa Es Su Benincasa with Sara Benincasa (Episode 90)

Nice and Neat with Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt (Episode 89)

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Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt are Studio Neat, a small design and software group that produces nifty products. They began with the Glif, and when I talked to them last over a year ago, they had launched their second software product and were deep in planning on a new, more complicated item: the Neat Ice… Continue reading Nice and Neat with Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt (Episode 89)