About

This is the weblog of Joseph Cohen.

I'm the founder of a company called Lore, which used to be called Coursekit. We're reshaping education for the internet age. If you are brilliant and want to be part of something extraordinary, join us.

Here, I focus on my interests: learning, creativity, invention, and design. Connect with me on Twitter and Linkedin.

If you want to get in touch, write to joe at lore dot com.

Inspiration

On Apple's core value, in 1997: "We believe that people with passion can change the world for the better." - Steve Jobs

"The details are not details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life." - Charles Eames

Anthony Shadid, a New York Times Reporter, Dies in Syria 

Powerful.

Anthony Shadid, a gifted newspaper correspondent whose graceful dispatches for both The New York Times and The Washington Post covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, died, apparently of an asthma attack, on Thursday while on a reporting assignment in eastern Syria. Tyler Hicks, a Times photographer who was with Mr. Shadid, carried his body across the border to Turkey.