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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.

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!

  • 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
  • Activists, Campaigners and Advocates versus AI
    Greening AI: A Roundtable Reflection cross-posted on the WAO blog Together with Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) or EWNI, we recently brought together climate and environmental justice campaigners, digital rights advocates, and other engaged activists. We discussed a set of shared principles for how we, as a collective, can think about… Read More »Activists, Campaigners and Advocates versus AI
  • The Tao of WAO
    Some things we’ve talked about in our cooperative cross-posted on the WAO blog I thought it might be a good idea to try to describe the Tao, or the natural way, of WAO. “In the Tao Te Ching, Laozi explains that the Tao is not a name for a thing, but the underlying natural order… Read More »The Tao of WAO