July 2009
10 posts
IBM's Smarter Planet
IBM’s Smarter Planet campaign is genius for many reasons. Here are three:
1. It demonstrates that IBM is on board with the “doing well by doing good” version of capitalism that has begun to dominate the business landscape. This reassures stakeholders and potential customers that IBM is capable of adapting to a changing environment and is thus, a sustainable investment.
2....
“Must. Keep. Writing.”
Sustainable Communities.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about sustainable communities. Not sustainable in the sense that they have a low carbon footprint (although this is an important aspect to creating an economically sustainable community), but in the sense that people want to live there.
Among other things, a sustainable community is facilitated by an infrastructure that encourages interaction and cooperation...
Excuses, excuses.
I grew up hating the word excuses. Its what my parents told me I was making up when I didn’t want to do something. “I’m not making up excuses!” I would say. That was a pretty good one, looking back.
One of the problems with having a big imagination is that excuses come easily, and intricately. When something is so detailed and entangled in personal weaknesses, it becomes...
Stuart Haygarth has perfect aesthetics.
Stuart Haygarth is one of my favorite artists. He brings found objects together in the most beautiful ways. The image above is one of my favorite photograph of all time. The progression down the spectrum is at a perfect gradient. The eye never gets tired or uninterested.
The image below is a compilation of objects confiscated from passengers at Gatwick Airport. It only took two weeks to amass...
So here's what I'm thinking.
I’ve been fighting with myself for over a year now on starting a blog. One of my new mantras is, “think less, do more.” So here we are.
Let me describe this blog without painting myself into a corner. alexandra hastings will include, but is not limited to: thoughts on science, technology, art and entrepreneurship and ways all of these things can combine to change the world in...