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 Sellouts and Savants“Writing — writing of any sort, not just an email — is a thousands-year-old technological hack to get around not being in person; but that doesn’t mean that it is impersonal.” Audrey Watters Maybe I’m a sell out I gave Anthropic twenty dollars and I feel gross about it. Sorry and ashamed. I debated about… Read More »[FBT] on Sellouts and Savants
- [FBT] on Sovereignty and StacksIf I weren’t going on sabbatical soon, and if I were so inclined to update my resume, I too would be highlighting the “tech sovereignty” work I’ve done. It’s not resume embellishment, just logical semantic evolution. Those of us who have been banging the drums of open source, decentralised, privacy, etc, etc, all this time… Read More »[FBT] on Sovereignty and Stacks
- Rising Scholars: Sprinting with INASPcross posted on the WAO blog WAO is working with INASP, an international development organization with over 30 years’ experience of working with a global network of partners in Africa, Latin America and Asia. our roadmap Although we’re closing on May 1st, WAO has just got time to squeeze one more project. It’s with INASP,… Read More »Rising Scholars: Sprinting with INASP