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”.

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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.

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!

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[FBT] on Softness and Screwed
Maybe I’m soft Good god almighty the Tech Bros, amirite!? I mean, we all knew they were supremely full of shit, but sometimes they at least pretended to be benevolent. Not anymore. Everyone is still up in arms about Zuck’s opportunist about-face on decency. And Musk is…well Musk. I don’t read most mainstream news anymore,… Read More »[FBT] on Softness and Screwed
[FBT] on Anniversaries and Art
Maybe I’m ten 2025, eh? Here we are. I started writing this newsletter in 2015, so that’s a ten year anniversary. 2015 was the most traumatic year of my life. Something happened that shook hell and Earth for me, changed me permanently and made me privy to a kind of grief that most people will… Read More »[FBT] on Anniversaries and Art
Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024
Podcast chain letter For those of you who are unawares, Doug Belshaw and I have been working together for longer than your 8th grader has been alive. Yesterday he posted about his podcasting habits, after Bryan Alexander posted about his podcasting habits, so now I’m posting about my podcasting habits and I hope that someone… Read More »Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024