A collection of quotations on design leadership visualized Wordle.net style.

Intuit Inc. is a very cool place to work due in no small part to Rick Jensen.

Mr. Jensen just sent out this email…

To help customers grow and run their small businesses Intuit will offer QuickBooks Pro for FREE at Staples stores on Monday, Dec. 22. This promotion will help small businesses through tough economic times, and supports our goal of bringing customers, customers, customers into the small business ecosystem.

The regular price at Staples is $199.99. Customers will receive $40 in instant savings and, with a $159.99 mail-in rebate, they get QuickBooks Pro for FREE!

This is a great opportunity to tell all of your friends and family to go to one of our most valuable retail partners and get a great deal on QuickBooks. Please forward this e-mail or download and print or forward the promotional advertisement to your friends and family.

The offer is one day only; you can find the nearest Staples store at www.staples.com or buy on-line.

Rick Jensen

Only valid at Staples while supplies last.

Note: I am an employee of Intuit but I’m not part of an affiliate program so there’s no direct benefit to me other than spreading goodwill for my employer and friends with small businesses.

Paul Otlet’s radiated library, or televised book… A surprisingly prescient vision of today’s information technology. The presentation style looks as if it could have been an inspiration for Common Craft’s presentation style.

My buddy Justin went to the annual Miramar Airshow this weekend and snapped some amazing photos with his Canon gear. The slideshow below contains the 68 photos he posted to Flickr. Thanks for Sharing Justin!

Wordle is an interesting way to gain insight from large bodies of text or any collections of words. The image below was created at wordle.net by pointing it at the tags I assigned to my delicious.com bookmarks.

This was my first Event Apart and I was not disappointed. The speakers were all on their game though I’ve seen Kelly’s and Jeff’s presentations before they’re keeping them fresh with a healthy serving of new material and are perfect for first time viewers. My brain is brimming with 16 hours of inspiration that I will try to distill down to a 30 minute share out with my friends at Intuit. I hope I can do them justice.

Here are my selects from the event. Not too bad for a $160 Lumix (no flash was used cuz I read the sign). More camera details available on each photo’s page on Flickr.

Jeffrey, thank you for the complement. It was an unexpected surprise. You have my permission to use them as you see fit.

This is my second attempt at a mobile blog entry via Wordpress for iPhone. My first attempt crashed the WP iPhone app as I was capturing a photo. First I will publish this entry as text only. Then I will come back and try to add a photo to the post. I find that most apps crash sometimes when saving a captured photo. This goes for third party apps as well as Apple apps (Contacts).