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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!

  • [FBT] on Awkwardness and Anti-conformity
    Maybe I’m awkward When he was 37 years old, Walt Whitman wrote “Song of Myself” a 50 page magnum opus in his magnum opus, Leaves of Grass. This poem, which I read for the first time this week, is a long and sprawling awareness. An ode to life and to death. To Earth, to humans,… Read More »[FBT] on Awkwardness and Anti-conformity
  • [FBT] on Sharing and Sinning
    Spoiler: in this episode of FBT I tell you the ending to Se7en, a film you should already know the ending to because it’s 30 years old ffs. Maybe I’m a sharer I follow threads when I’m trying to figure out what exactly my Freshly Brewed Thoughts are each week. Often I don’t know where… Read More »[FBT] on Sharing and Sinning
  • [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