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This is kind of a cop out, but…

Nick Grossman — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:49:08 +0000

As part of my goals for 2011, I’m trying to blog more regularly — once a week, right here, to be precise. As I mentioned, I don’t quite have the rhythm down yet. This is evidenced by the fact that I’m sitting in bed at 11:30pm on Sunday night writing this half-assed post, just so that I can get it in before the week ends…

So, in order to stick to my guns and my schedule, here’s a bit of a cop out, in the form of a brief list of things I’ve been thinking about and want to get down on paper at some point soon:

The Enterprise End-Run — servicing enterprise users without working with enterprise clients.
Where OpenPlans is headed — what’s on tap for 2011.
Listening to the Internet — if you feel like no one is talking to you, chances are you’re wrong; you’re just not listening correctly.
There’s a man in my inbox! — it’s all about the inbox, and I want a little man in there helping me out every day.
My dad’s start up story — thirty-two years ago, my father started a company from nothing, and is still in business today.
The adjacent possible — why this is such a neat way of thinking about new ideas.

There are a handful of other ideas swimming in my head soup as well, and I will try and keep those flowing to the Exobrain in near real-time.

And, with that, I will hit publish and see you next week.

Tumbling on

Nick Grossman — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:51:16 +0000

Most of the action is happening on my Tumblog these days. For some reason I can’t stop posting there, and I can’t start here…

New theme, and it's slightly less simple

Nick Grossman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:20:38 +0000

During Theo’s morning nap today, I updated this blog’s theme. I’m going to attempt to start using the blog more regulalry, as sort of an “open lab notebook,” and (in the true spirit of procrastination) figured I’d start by updating the theme.

So here it is; I’ve ditched by previous Undesign for more of a design design. I took the very nice looking Simplicity theme by Digital Visions, and adjusted it a bit for my purposes. The resulting theme is available here if you’re interested.

Voila!

Welcome to the Undesign

Nick Grossman — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:31:18 +0000

Over the past two years, I’ve redesigned this website about 5 times, but never finished. Talk about frustrating. Eventually, I realized that I was getting nowhere, and that instead of a redesign, what I really needed was an undesign. So that’s what I did. Welcome to wrkng -1.0, my first undesign. Lately I’ve been getting the blogger’s itch (is that like athlete’s foot?), so this undesign is more blog-oriented.

Maybe one day I’ll get around to making an Actual Design, but I have a feeling this will suffice for a while. If you like it, you can download the Undesign WordPress theme . As you can see it’s pretty simple, and there are some known shortcomings: no support for pages (in terms of navigation), and support for tags but not categories. Basically, what you see here and nothing more. Enjoy!