STRATEGIST & IDEA(L)IST
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👋 Hi! I’m an expert in open principles, community building, technology for a better world and some other things.
CURRENT ENDEAVOUR
Being cooperative.
We Are Open Co-op
I work independently on a variety of creative endeavors and enjoy working through We Are Open Co-op on complex client projects. The co-op members are crazy smart and overall fantastic humans. They’ve called me a “tech wizard”, “creative genius” and “expert facilitator”.
DOES ANYONE READ THIS STUFF?
Biography Basics.
I’m a generalist and a specialist. An open strategist. A facilitator. A writer. A technologist. An intellectual multipod. A skater. I’m a lot of things. I create bridges where community, technology and learning meet up.
I work with Greenpeace quite a bit. I spent over 5 years at Mozilla. I am a founding member of the We Are Open Co-op. I’ve failed at a start-up and succeeded at earning a Masters in Media & Education. I write books and make stuff.
I mostly work at trying to make the world a better, cleaner, more equitable place. I like decentralization and distributed leadership.
I’m a thinker and a maker. I teach, speak, collaborate, make and write to help organizations with digital transformation, leadership development, curriculum and open strategies. I work to build healthy, open communities and am an Ambassador for Opensource.com. Find out more about what I do or just get in touch!
STORAGE UNIT
Stuff I write.
Writing openly.
I write for the WAO blog, Greenpeace publications, Opensource.com and many other places on the web. Everything I write eventually ends up on this site, and there are posts here that don’t appear anywhere else. Have a search of the archives if you’re looking for something!
- [FBT] on Nuance and NominalismMaybe I’m published It’s slow, still. Co-op members are kind of waiting around for things to start to move. Contracts to be signed. Emails to be returned. Spring to unfurl. Waiting. We are not great at waiting. I’m not great at waiting, although I am totally fine at waiting in waiting rooms. Somewhere along the… Read More »[FBT] on Nuance and Nominalism
- Systemic complexities with AICross-posted on the WAO blog This series is a brief look at the content within Harnessing AI for Environmental Justice, a report WAO developed for Friends of the Earth, funded by Mozilla. Read or download the full report here. Check out Part 1, Understanding Predominant Narratives in AI. In this second part, we look at… Read More »Systemic complexities with AI
- Understanding Predominant Narratives in AICross-posted on the WAO blog Over the past months, WAO has been working on a report called Harnessing AI for Environmental Justice for Friends of the Earth. Funded by Mozilla, the report is a deep dive into the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what Big Tech’s newest hype means for activists and campaigners. Read… Read More »Understanding Predominant Narratives in AI