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 Complacency and Conferences
Maybe I’m successful My brain told itself that I was basically going to keep puttering along with nothing much to think about or say for the foreseeable future. It convinced itself that for all the effort in making the world a better place, it would, indeed, never bother to get its everliving shit together. The… Read More »[FBT] on Complacency and Conferences - [FBT] on Care and Chaos
Maybe I’m careful My mom (hi mom!) learned a new word from a friend and texted me the Wikipedia page for Kakistocracy: “a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens” WIkipedia When I was a teenager, I was pen pals with a guy in a Tennessee punk band called Kakistocracy. That… Read More »[FBT] on Care and Chaos - [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