Going into the Field is Really the Only Way

On March 2nd a long and impactful career ended when James Q. Wilson died. He was a professor of Government at Harvard. He also wrote prodigiously, hundreds of essays and many books such as his Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (1989) and...

Hey! You’re Standing in My Space!

This year I made it to the CHI (Computer/Human Interaction) conference for the first time in a while. It was fun to see old friends and new research—lots of thought-provoking papers and some fun and cool technology. But it’s the keynote that really struck a chord with...