The things I love most

A awesome advanced mechanical pencil I got from Jetpens 

I love stuff, especially products, especially good ones - and, I love telling people what to buy. So I want to make a list of things that I think are good that I think people should buy. However, my opinions are limited by what I own, what I have seen, and what I have heard about online or wherever. So, I want to make this a open project to find the best products of each of a number of categories. The categories may include such things as different kinds of cameras, pencils, watches, jeans, flip flops, and everything else that money can buy. Also, when I say "find the best products" I really mean find the products that suit an unknown list of requirements that I agree with - for now lets just say things that make people happy.

I am not sure what platform to use for this project yet. Perhaps a google spreadsheet thought that might be a bit bland, perhaps a google sites pages. Suggestions? Also any products you love... tell me about them.

Lastly, I need to think of a name for this. One of the driving forces is that I think people have a lot of things they don't need. A lot of bad pens and pencils for instance, so I was considering a name which suggests singular solutions. Something like "Just get this one.com", this obviously is not good so please think of a good one and tell me about it.

Other places and things that begin with KAIST

Recently I have been working on another, new website. I may have mentioned it before but it is starting to actually have pages and content and stuff. I can not get a RSS feed out of it very simply yet so I am not bothering but I hope to at some point. In any case, my new home page is now located at google sites. For now the URL is not really that nice but at some point I am hoping to get a good one.

KAIST Emblem

In other news. I have been accepted to KAIST and have been given the appropriate scholarships to go there. I will be pursuing a Masters in Design Management and Strategy and hopefully learning a lot of Korean at the same time.

In other unrelated news, Soumitri is working on a project that I think is kinda cool and has been pushing me to think more about the before mentioned Google Design School. Also, given the new website etc. I have been commenting on my project more here, than on this blog.

Comments comments comments. Any medium available.

Google Sites and Zen Products

Today I think I have started actually using google sites a little bit which is good fun. I am using it to help manage a project I am on with some people in australia, for now it is private but there may be some stuff for public view in a bit. 

Also, I have recently begun to realise I really like some aspects of Zen, especially when they are represented in products and systems. I think a big part of my interest in these systems is the sense of really robust simplicity, not ephemeral or short sighted simplicity. There are a number of things I think fall into this category nicely so I was thinking of starting a list of Zen products and systems and services. I think the first thing to go on the list will be Sakura Systems because they are just so Zen. Does anyone have any good things to add on? 

I will just add that I think [good] one page sites could be added to this list. I will see what I can find.