Patricia Barry Baker, devoted mother, artist, avid gardener, and lifelong learner, passed away peacefully in Portland, Maine last Saturday morning, May 19. She was surrounded by immediate family in the last few weeks of her life. She was born in Boston in 1931, was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts and spent...
[caption id="attachment_15724" align="alignleft" width="300"] Shape Simple Hex Hexagonal Abstract Modern[/caption] It isn't that for over 30 years direct marketing has told us relevancy increases conversion rates. It isn't because you've invested real cash in the tools to personalize but have a hard time managing the complexity of...
It is amazing to see 3 years of work summarized into a 1/2 page case study by a great analyst. Undoubtably one of the easier research interviews I've done in a while -- speaking directly to what we did, how we ran the workshops, and how we managed...
Found an old speech I gave in Berlin 2007. It was the first time I wrote out a presentation and learned it word for word, instead of preparing a set of notes and talking to them. What is funny is how much the message is still...
[caption id="attachment_1123" align="alignleft" width="194"] EPSON MFP image[/caption] Hello everyone, for those of you that don't know me I am John Baker, Frank Baker's son, and thank you for coming out today and showing your support. It means a lot to all of us. Right after my father...
As we pulled together the service we gathered a bunch of photographs. In the process we found a couple of us had different scans from Dad and Jerry Fabry's trip from Boston to Rio. I also found out the 5 spolnsors that covered a lot...
I'm looking forward to doing a few family posts in the next few weeks and months, and cleaning up this blog. We can learn a lot from what people have done especially when their lives were as full of adventure and action as my Dad's life....
Had the good luck to go to CES this year. Like two years ago it is a big, big show, but I think I like it more after this trip. Not so much for the booths--although walking the floor with a good friend in from...
These are the comments I made at Ulf's Memorial. It was an easy topic to choose given the number of projects we did together and the projects I watched him do with others. Love and recognition “Love and recognition” That was what Ulf would ask for when he...
There have been a number of articles post-election that look at how the tech industry and the internet pioneers are reacting to the upset. Re/code reported from tech entrepreneurs talking in anguish from the WebSummit stage in Portugal, the New York Times picked it up...