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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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!
- We don’t have rum for you (sea shanty #2)Went to dinner with the Corsican mafia and they were really niceA storm rolled in and we’re stuck in harbour not just once but thrice. Went out to the sea on the very next day to check in with the wavesPulled the main sail up and the fore sail out and then we sailed away.… Read More »We don’t have rum for you (sea shanty #2)
- Captain Planet and AI: Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and HeartIn the 80s, kids all across the US and likely the Western World, kids like me, used to watch Captain Planet, a superhero who came into being when 5 teenage climate warriors aimed their laser rings at each other: The co-op is working on a new project with Friends of the Earth, so we’ve been… Read More »Captain Planet and AI: Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Heart
- Unpacking the foundations of Verifiable Credentialscross-posted on the WAO blog Did you ever consider that looking at a tree only reveals half of its story? Much like a tree’s roots, which stretch as a wide and deep as its branches, the visible aspect of technology barely scratches the surface. In this post, we’re going to look at the the underpinnings… Read More »Unpacking the foundations of Verifiable Credentials