Ding. Push. Buzz. Click. Swipe. Fetch. We used to have to just keep up with the Joneses. But since the advent of the Internet, it’s the Smiths, the Andersons, the Sasakis, the Garcias. It’s work, it’s play, it’s passions, it’s purpose, it’s people, it’s potential. It’s newsletters, it’s go getters, it’s unfettered. At work, at rest, in-person ...
Not sure where to look while walking through world-famous Times Square? Don’t worry – you’re not alone. With massive digital billboards whose bright lights make midnight look like mid-afternoon; star-studded Broadway and Off-Broadway shows (and reduced – price tickets to see them available from the TKTS Discount Booth); people peddling art and jewelry on the street; and, of course, the Naked Cowboy — who plays guitar in his tighty-whities — the expansive stretch of Midtown is a feast for all five senses.
We the creator love our finished product. It’s our chance to finally point at the once discombobulated, but now neatly packaged thing we’ve been slaving over for months and months. But we the creator secretly hate to share a finished product too. Because it’s also the time when the culmination of days of sweat and stress ...
The email inbox has become the domestic housecat of our existence. If we neglect it, we’re afraid it might hunt us and kill us. We humans send well over 100 trillion emails a year. No, that isn’t a madeup number to emphasize “a lot”, it’s reality. One hundred. Trillion. We can’t conceptualize that but it just ...
With all these opportunities to create, why is it so hard for us to actually create? The Internet Age has given us access to unfathomable amounts of information paired with options too numerous to count. This is great for people who know what they want to do, but terrible for those who don’t. Because for a ...
"Hi, I'm Bassam Tarazi, creator of Colipera. This blog combines tenets of collective inspiration, personal accountability and global discovery. Enjoy!"