Business Model Canvas developed by my team at 3 Day Startup

I would like to share a story about one of the most exciting weekends of all time. This past April I was accepted to participate in 3 Day Startup in San Antonio Read more

My MFA thesis sent me into a Design space that I can’t imagine any of my friends or colleagues guessing I would have ever found myself in. Local food?! At twenty-seven years I could barely feed myself, let alone feed myself well. Read more

The recent string catastrophes that landed on several of Airbnb’s users has highlighted a critical shortcoming in the service’s role as a broker of space among total strangers. How do you know you can trust that person on the other end Read more

In universal algebra and in model theory, a reduct of an algebraic structure is obtained by omitting some of the operations and relations of that structure. The converse of reduct is expansion. Wikipedia

Early-stage collaborative way-finding is a messy good time.  Teams dive head first into abject calamity, gobbled up in an avalanche of complexity and losing all sense of up or down, but soon identify patterns and relationships Read more

A few hours after our initial attempt we piled back into our jeeps and started back up the hill.  The landslide had been cleared and traffic was well on its way. The paved two-lane highway soon switched to a one-lane dirt track Read more

Our first attempt to trek up to Khardung La Pass was foiled by a landslide, so took the opportunity to stroll around Leh and absorb street life on a sunny afternoon.

A few shots from an afternoon spent in Thiksey Monastery in Ladakh.  The view from the roof was absolutely breathtaking.. I would have just had my mail forwarded and moved in, but the monks weren’t taking new roomies.

It may be hard to throw out old CD’s, but it’s fairly easy to box them all up and mail them to your friends. A few years ago I tried replacing the jewel cases with soft cases, but ended up with a 50/50 split. Read more

Let loose the VAIO! In a previous life, this was my life. I was a web designer and online undergrad who lived in central Nebraska but commuted (almost weekly) to Denver to practice, write, record, and rock out Read more

Into the cloud! I must have put 50 pounds of paper through my little $14 shredder (R.I.P.), one sheet at a time. My first instinct was to scan the whole pile Read more

Time to change things up!  I decided my old site was just too damn busy for how little it accomplished.  It was sort of set up like a super-hub for all that I do.  I thought that would put the mania to order and inspire more writing, Read more

Two minutes through Leh, Ladakh from Dustin Larimer on Vimeo. I knew it would be impossible to communicate the rugged beauty of Ladakh once I returned home.. so I shot a series of simple videos as we cruised around Read more

If I told you decision-makers involved in the Haitian recovery could better prepare themselves for the future by cooking up a series of fictional stories, you would probably brush it off as a bunch of irrational, disconnected garbage. Read more

Hemis is a 15th century Buddhist monastery tucked between converging cliffs high above lush green farmland.  This was just one of many treks throughout Ladakh.