It’s a gorgeous January day in Northern California. I feel very lucky!

• I’m kicking off the week drowning in administrivia: sending out 1099 to last year’s contractors, paying the next installment on this year’s taxes, dealing with a missing automated bill payment to our landlord and so on. It’s gotta be done but yuck.
• There is some fun administrivia though: time spent getting ready for a possible office share with a local designer who is interested in one of our unused desks.
• Last week was really dominated by chatting with a number of prospects, outlining project plans, creating documents, talking through approaches and schedules. This week begins with…waiting. Although I’m sure that’s going to get a bit zany before too long.
• We ended last year as an agency of one, and so we’ve begun this year by reaching out to our network of collaborators in order to create just a bit more formality around an informal aggregation. This week will be a lot of conversations with people about the details of working together.
• I’ve started a fun collaboration with a local colleague and will be announcing that here very soon!
• On the town: I’ve been invited to dinner with a delegation of design executives from China. I’m not sure what it’s going to be about but will find out!
• On Thursday, I’ll be teaching a workshop about Interviewing Users at Code for America!
• Here’s my 5-minute talk about The Power of Silence, newly posted from last year’s Fluxible conference.
• Ten years gone: From January 2004 – Phase 3 is Profit!, The Sim Mafia.
• What we’re consuming: The Happy Taco, StarStruck, Modern Family, Steal This Episode.