Welcome to my website!
There’s a few major themes you’ll find here!
- Designing Paper-based Productivity Tools – I make popular tracking tools like the Emergent Task Planner in the Productivity Tools section. I emphasize concrete metrics that reveal trends over time without requiring a lot of tedious data entry. I hate ugly forms, so I try to make them as nice as possible by applying principles of visual hierarchy to make information clear and beautiful.
- Challenge of Creative Development – I wish I was faster/better/stronger at a lot of things, and I try to maintain a positive attitude. I find learning and making new things really hard; I think it’s good to share my experience so other people on this path might know they are not alone.
- Making-Up Experiments, Projects, and Processes – When I’m stuck in a challenge, I turn it into an experiment to gather more data. Even if the challenge fails, the experiment always wins because experimental data has been acquired! Also, it’s fun to apply what I know about science, graphic design, computer programming, and psychology in novel and amusing ways :)
Recent Posts / Blogging Status
Here are my last 12 blog posts! Currently I’m blogging around one article per month for my (Not) Groundhog Day Resolutions reports. I also share a lot of day-to-day thinking in the Virtual Coworking Chat (see next section).
Virtual Coworking Cafe
Sri’s Virtual Coworking Cafe (AKA the DS | CAFE) is where I and other nerdy positive-minded people try to cultivate a good “working vibe” as we pursue our individual goals. We have a diverse range of people from around the world sharing their stratagems for figuring-out stuff that’s on their mind.
This is a working online chat room, and the general idea is to provide the level of distraction you need to have a productive day. Visitors can drop by at any hour of the day to mingle with the regulars, sort of like visiting a nice coffee shop. People engage at whatever level they are comfortable with, and can choose to partake in the vibe by joining a topical discussion room, sharing photos showing-off project progress, or doing paced work in a group audio chat room. What you get out of the experience is really up to what you choose to put in.
If you’re interested in visiting the DS | CAFE, you’ll find the details on the virtual coworking page.
About Dave.Sri
As a kid I liked to write and draw. I drews lots of pictures of spaceships. Later I spent a lot of time on my Apple II, learning to read machine language and make computer graphics. For college I almost picked English as a major, but decided to pursue computer engineering and graphics design as part of my master plan to make lots of video games with spaceships. In the mid 1990s, I was part of a tiny startup game company in the Boston area to make a game called Crixa, and after that company folded I moved to Florida to work at Electronic Arts. I soon realized that I was not a good fit for the industry, and after a lot of painful soul searching I left the business entirely to practice interactive design.
These days I work as a freelance designer/developer using video game technology for Learning Sciences research software and interactive installations, currently with Javascript and NodeJS. I also have a side hustle selling versions of my productivity tools on Amazon.
On a personal note, I’m a second-generation Taiwanese 
American living in Southern New Hampshire about 40 miles north of Boston. I’m transitioning from the name “Dave” to “Sri” (pronounced SREEE), which is a long story in itself. 
My preferred pronouns are they/them.
I really like curry, daylight-balanced lighting, hats, cats, select rodents, gadgets that work better upside-down, temperature control of all kinds, and gear that is obsessively designed to provide utility that empowers people. I especially like excellence-seeking positive-minded people who are generous, conscientious, curious, and kind.
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