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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.

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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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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.

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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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  • Not a Masters in Creative Writing
    It’s time for me to work in the open again, so I am going to try to find some dialogue with you, whoever you are, existing reader. Hi, how are you? Every few years, as I spin out about what it is I want to be and who I am and the work I should… Read More »Not a Masters in Creative Writing
  • [FBT] on Wear and Waffle
    A festival. A wedding. A moment. A sudden death. Collective grieving. 3,632km driving on the left. Hiking and empty beaches, a fairy forest, a missing lake monster. Spontaneous car rental. A funeral. 40 degrees. 40 degrees again. Laying on the floor. Too hot to sleep. I need to buy toothpaste. Hello again. Hello Again is… Read More »[FBT] on Wear and Waffle
  • [FBT] on Grief and Gardening
    One of you once wrote me that “Grief is strange, oddly supple, and rises up in very peculiar waves.” Supple. Merriam Webster provides several definitions to this word that, when applied to grief, are so, so interesting. Supple is “compliant often to the point of obsequiousness”. Merriam Webster then uses the pairing “fawning attentiveness” to… Read More »[FBT] on Grief and Gardening