by David Sasaki | Mar 19, 2012 | English, Moleskinned
I started blogging at el-oso.net in December 2003. I didn’t expect it to last long; mostly I wanted to keep a travel diary for a road trip around Mexico, and I figured, why not keep it on the Internet? Several months later I realized that I still had more to...
by David Sasaki | Nov 26, 2009 | English
I loved this book and its ideas formed the basis of my thinking about digital craftsmanship, the perils of virtuosity, and an upcoming post about social expertise versus antisocial expertise. Craftsmanship may suggest a way of life that waned with the advent of...
by David Sasaki | Nov 24, 2009 | English
I guess I never really explained the backstory of why I’ve been so obsessed about “digital craftsmanship” over the past few months. I had reached a point in my career where I wasn’t sure if I could keep doing this ‘computer thing’....
by David Sasaki | Oct 15, 2009 | English
Today I want to talk about a concept that is usually treated by the business community as quaint, if it is acknowledged at all. I want to talk about craftsmanship – a desire to do something well, for its own sake. The satisfaction that comes from creating...
by David Sasaki | Oct 15, 2009 | English, Moleskinned
Internet Hungary was surreal. Unlike any other conference I’ve ever spoken at. The day before it began I was met at my hotel by my driver, the Hungarian version of Vin Diesel who I was sure spent all his spare time enacting scenes from Fast and Furious 1, 2, 3,...
by David Sasaki | Oct 12, 2009 | English
This is the first of three book reviews I’ll be publishing this week in preparation for my Wednesday talk at Internet Hungary on “The Artisan Internet and Digital Craftsmanship.” Here is a (slightly outdated) blurb: “Facebook, Amazon, and...
by David Sasaki | Oct 1, 2009 | English
Andrei’s portfolio is available on his website. He blogs occasionally. I first got a peek of the ways of the old school, professionally trained photojournalist when I traveled to Liberia with the talented Kathleen Flynn and her partner in print, Vanessa Gezari...