I have many interests. The main influences on my work and personal life are detailed below.
Art
Art interests me on both the aesthetic level and in its ability to inspire action.
Philosophy
One of my majors at University was Philosophy. In particular I studied practical ethics in which I still maintain an active interest.
Digital Freedoms
I believe digital technologies work best when they are deployed in a free and open sense. This leads me to support and use Open Source Software, promote electronic freedom organisations like EFF, and promote liberal copyright approaches to content such as Creative Commons.
Enabling Technologies
Imagining the possible uses of new technologies and how they might both enable and shape culture fascinate me.
Getting Things Done
Personally, or by groups. Project Management, methodologies, processes. Locating and promoting drive.
History
Where we have come from, how we’ve done it before. And what it might mean for what we will do next.
Interactive Storytelling
CS Lewis wrote, “When I was ten, I read fairytales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so … When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”. I’m interested in stories you can effect - by playing.
Marketing
Selling more "sprockets" is how I first started my career online. I’m as interested in how to sell (good) ideas as much as sprockets these days.
Socialised Content
Written, spoken, visual, audio, multimedia content that spreads ideas via compelling communication
These Things We Do
In William Gibson’s novel Pattern Recognition he described a character thus, “people fascinate him, in some peculiarly abstract way: the things they do, though not so much why they do them“. I’m fascinated to observe the many and varied things us human folk do on a day to day basis. Both as individuals and (sub)cultures.
Why Do We Do (These Things We Do)
Quite why people do, these things we do intrigues me.
Pop Culture
O rly? Ya rly!
