Hack T-Shirt Designer

Posted by Pek in Wednesday, July 29th 2009 under: Business Tags: contest, design, graphics, roundarch, tshirt

Roundarch (my employer) is having a t-shirt design contest for the summer company annual event. The winner will not only enjoy seeing her work being worn by all her colleagues but she will also win an Amazon Kindle.
I’m not really a graphic designer, but I decided to throw my hat into the game. If [...]

Using Twitter to Promote an Event Last Minute + Results

Posted by Pek in Tuesday, July 21st 2009 under: Business, Labs, Technology Tags: marketing, socialmedia, twitter

This evening I gave a talk for the Chicago Interactive Designers and Developers Meetup. I’ve been so busy lately that I did not think to promote it well in advance. As a result I didn’t get the word out about it until late in the afternoon today.
With tools like Twitter search and bit.ly, [...]

Eight Life Hacks

Posted by Pek in Thursday, July 9th 2009 under: Business, Life, Martial Arts Tags: blog, hacks, tips

My friend Dave Kadavy called me out on his blog to list eight life hacks – simple things that make you feel like you’re cheating the system. Here they are in no particular order:

Read on the train. I commute to and from work. I would consider that dead time if I was just sitting or [...]