jay/day

I'd like to interrupt our usual programming for a word about me. Since leaving Chiat/Day in 1995, I have become a professional writer, with my work appearing in the New York Times and Fast Company. I even won a writing award from Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter. I have an oeuvre. And I have been working for what seems like an eternity on a novel. But I have also kept a toe in technology, helping a variety of companies discover that information they have always thought of as "back office" has strategic value; that in a world where margins are wafer-thin, the delivery of smart data, pushed through email and intranets, can not only improve workflow, it can improve profits.

An opportunity arose a few weeks ago to work with some old friends at an e-commerce software company in Boston called Allurent. I am commuting from New York City and living in Cambridge four days a week, acting as creative director for the design of a website that will change cyberspace as we know it. I can tell you nothing about it because of client confidentiality, but it is soooo cool.

Steve