<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>Squaremethod Design Studio RSS Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/</link><description>Squaremethod Design Studio: thoughts and news updated daily: by Christof Meyer</description><language>en-us</language><docs>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/rss.xml</docs><item><title><![CDATA[The Rest of The Story - Getting Back To Normal]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=438</link><description><![CDATA[If you look over to the left of this layout - in the gallery section - you will find a new gallery from the week of graduation. Darden is such an intense time that it almost HAS to fly by. In the midst of it all it is easy to worry about "not making it", "failing", or "getting dropped".

The truth is, almost nobody drops. Almost everyone passes. And the real worry that more students should try to avoid, is forgetting to fully appreciate the blessing that Darden is/was/will be.  My time....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:18:20 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Life in Richmond]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=437</link><description><![CDATA[Over the past few months no question has been more interesting for me to answer than the following:

"So how do you like living in Richmond?"

I'm not quite sure what people expect me to say, but I tend to lead with the usual "oh, it's very nice, thanks for asking", and then follow immediately with a very specific example of something cool I experienced in the past week. To help you imagine what this exchange might look like, I've devised the following simple game. I'll prete....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:35:19 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Soul Rises]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=432</link><description><![CDATA[Since Justin's death I haven't really had too much to say on the internet. Facebook, Twittering, and Blogging all seemed so superficial that I couldn't bring myself to get excited about writing.

However, I've pulled myself together, healing has begun, and Megan and I have the privilege of announcing that we are currently at work on a baby. In truth, as most of you already understand, Megan is the one doing most of the work, but still, I help.

Exactly one week before Justin ....]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:28:30 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Life of Justin Key]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=368</link><description><![CDATA[The fact that we are all going to die is one of the most obvious things in life. And yet, any time someone I know dies, it always feels like a shock. In addition, when someone is young and seems to have their whole life in front of them, it seems impossible that they could have won the "reverse lottery" and been taken away. But it looks like that's what happened to Justin. I say "looks like" for a reason... But I'll get to that later.

Justin Key died this past Monday, December 14, ear....]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:01:21 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On living]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=366</link><description><![CDATA[The leaves are almost all gone now. From my ringside seat here on the second floor I have been really amazed by the way eastern leaves seem to celebrate their impending death. It reminds me, actually, of the famous quote from the Shawshank Redemption where Morgan Freeman says "Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying." I don't think the average person is very inspired by that quote to get busy dying, so I assume generally taken as a rhetorical statement that promotes "really living". These leaves, on ....]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:59:32 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicidal Micemunk Debriefing]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=345</link><description><![CDATA[Now that the scariest season of all is past for this year, I believe I can finally tell the tale of woe that befell this house just two weeks ago.

It was a dark and stormy night when the scratching sounds began. At first I thought I was having trouble sleeping because of a change in my workout routine, our overly warm bedroom, or perhaps work stress, but after a few days of the strange symptoms, the source of my trouble became all too clear.

Just a few days ago (though they....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:10:31 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Randomness begets Randomness]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=337</link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, so here's a series of occurrences  that I've run into in the past 24 hours. See if you can imagine how these all happened to me within such a short span of time.

1. A man wearing a kilt opens up the door for me, at 1:30PM, remarking, "you have coffee, one always has to open the door for a man carrying coffee...

2. 8 ordained ministers invite me to dinner with a bishop.

3. I learn that the Foreign Service Officers Exam is very hard.

4. A Marine ex....]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:05:14 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regarding A Consulting Career]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=329</link><description><![CDATA[This past week has been a whirlwind.

I began work on two new projects simultaneously - all while continuing to work on another. I planned a trip to California, neglected a few details, had a good time, had a bad time, brought a dizzying array of design thinking, business training, art training, and people skills to bear on a problem in three hours, narrowly escaped destruction, and slept only 12 hours in five days.

Upon returning to the land of the living this morning I che....]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:05:12 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the vagaries of life!]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=327</link><description><![CDATA[The image above is a couple of beautiful brandy snaps that my wife cranked out on Sunday. Initially I was going to post about them on Monday, but I'm glad that I didn't now because so much has changed.

In fact, it really is interesting how pausing a bit before speaking (or writing in this case) can alter what you were going to write. I was going to explain, in triumphant tones, how this weekend was a culinary masterpiece. Just in the past week this house has seen smoked pork ribs, hom....]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:18:08 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Trip To the Czech Republic]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=321</link><description><![CDATA[Darden has a way of getting students out into the world. Perhaps it has something to do with the long days (and longer nights) spent studying in a small town. Or, perhaps it has everything to do with the way our faculty constantly talk about the consulting engagements that take them all over the world during their summers and vacations...

I don't know why most people go, but I know why I went. I went because a good friend of mine brought it to my attention and bluntly stated that the ....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:04:20 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=321</guid></item></channel></rss>