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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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  • [FBT] on Play and Purity
    Maybe I’m hypernormalised For years, I hinted to my family and friends that all I really wanted for my birthday (any birthday!) was a choreographed group dance routine. I showed them videos of the time flash mobs were all the craze. I explained Fox trot parties to them. I did the hokey pokey by myself… Read More »[FBT] on Play and Purity
  • [FBT] on Safety and Searching
    About a year ago I went to an event outside of Istanbul. I made a friend there. Some connections are quick and deep and lasting. Hearty connections. You don’t remember what people say, you remember how they made you feel and all that. My friend lives in in the middle east and this week sent… Read More »[FBT] on Safety and Searching
  • [FBT] on Roots and Rewilding
    Maybe I’m rewilding Poplar trees spread roots just under the surface of the ground like they think they’re the veins and arteries of mother earth. An entire forest of Poplars can be generically identical. They are invasive, short lived trees that crowd out other species as they suck out the nutrients of the soil and… Read More »[FBT] on Roots and Rewilding