tdhurst

(you can call me tyler)
“It's time to stop hiding behind brands, corporate policies or the way things used to be. Evolve. Get better. Let's learn from each other. It's called the Collaboration Revolution. Welcome to the Relationship Age.” - Tyler Hurst

Where is the Valley going? – Opening panel from @phxdw

Thanks again the the organizers of Phoenix Design Week for choosing my topic and much love to Luis Salazar, Carol Johnson, Bill Wyman and Peter Sciacca for appearing on the panel. Posted via email from Tyler says... If the video doesn't work, you can download the ...

Running in Vibrams

Running in Vibrams is freeing until you realize that you're running BAREFOOT ON CONCRETE.Seriously, who invented these things? Why am I wearing them? They are the most comfortable shoes that cause me the most pain ever.But I can't stop wearing them. Is this what heroin is like? ...

PhxDW Recap

It all started with a letter. Phoenix Design Week, the largest independent design fair the Valley has ever seen, was conceived, planned and executed solely by the collaboration of a large group of volunteers. PhxDW was created to showcase what makes our home a player on design’s world stage. Spearheaded ...

Confessional

To learn from your mistakes, you must first learn what your mistakes are. I once arranged for my friend at Abercombie & Fitch to let me buy one item of clothing and walk out with many bags as long as I split them with him, but I never lied to anyone. I've ...

Shared Experiences versus Sharing Experiences

Great storytellers like have always been popular. Thinks Shakespeare. Cronkite. Hanks. As listeners, want to immerse themselves in their world and live through them. It requires trust, it requires imagination and it requires a suspension of disbelief. But it's not real. There's no interaction. We're being talked at, not ...

My brother the hunter (w/ pics)

I'm two years older than my brother and almost three inches shorter. He bought his first car before I did, got married before I did and learned to be an adult waaaaay before I did (or will, I suppose). We share a love of playing wiffleball and catch, and ...

Fouling one off at #phxdw

Some think it's the trying that's important. Others believe that stepping up to the plate is a success in itself. Not me. It doesn't count unless you get a hit. Unless you make an impression. Unless you inspire. Wanting wasn't enough this morning. Questioning wasn't enough this ...

Speech to BPW Phoenix

Know what you're talking about. If nothing else, know what you're talking about. Short of that, just do what I do here and talk nearly non-stop for an hour and a half. Also, put your name on your shirt. Here's the full version. Highlights to come, if I find any. Arkayne = window.Arkayne || ...

The gang beat down (how it started)

For those just jumping in, read part one first. Okay, I was drunk. Not falling over drunk, but I was having a good time. The party was two hours old, the fifth I had brought had been consumed and now I was staggering around on my hurt right leg, trying to ...

What advice would YOU give to job searching Baby Boomers?

When I was downsized last December, I knew exactly where to look. I knew who to talk to, I knew who to solicit advice from and I knew what I wanted to do. And it still took two months and a lot of luck to find a gig. ...

March 10th 2010
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100 people and art

Art is a gift. It changes the giver AND the recipient. But art, like a a true straight line, doesn't actually EXIST. All we can see is the physical representation of the artist's true vision of the world. And for this, we should all be grateful. I've purchased ONE piece of art ...
March 9th 2010
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What revolution?

So you say you want a revolution...yet you have no idea what the word means. According to Scott Dadich, the creative director of Wired, "there's a revolution in the way ppl consume journalism." WHAT? Are readers demanding that journalism change? Do you remember asking? The way we consume media is EVOLVING and ...
March 8th 2010
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Make me proud

My dad is a 61-year-old safety trainer and salesman. He's owned his own business, helped raise three kids and has been in the same house since 1981. He's the hardest-working person I know, is never late and hasn't ever given up in the 30 years I've been alive. This past August, ...
March 7th 2010
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Going bare

We wear expensive shoes because we're told they protect our feet. We wear certain styles of clothing because we're told we'll be accepted if we do. We act a certain way in order to fit in. All of these act as barriers to what's really there. Similar to force-feedback on any ...
March 6th 2010
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Context

This is the first picture I'd ever seen of Sunny Thaper. I assumed he tweeted from there and, having never been to Gangplank at the time, had no one to ask. Since this was the only image I had associated with him, I thought of it every time I saw a ...

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