My biggest interests are how people organize, learn, and heal.
I believe that people do best when they are in full control of their lives and are supported by a community. What do people need — in terms of community, skills, and resources — to learn, to heal, and fundamentally to get things done? What social structures can be built or leveraged to facilitate any and all of these things?
I think my personal mission is to make learning, work, and play, amazing and the same.
To that end, I’m working on sprout right now — using data in the everyday world as a way to making science personal (be it learning about the physics of baseball or the chemistry of gardening.) It’s deeper goal is to develop a way to ask deeper questions about the world around us and grow our curiousity.
I built Camp Kaleidoscope as a way to explore this theme with children: what happens when you seed an environment with inspiring materials and activities and let kids do what they want?
I’m excited to do and learn pretty much everything.
I realize that a list of interests would be hard-pressed to be complete, or even timely, so I’m going to try answering the following question: if I thought the problem of building communities for healthy learning was solved, what would I do with a year of my time? Options right now include:
* master several medical skills in succession and/or try to forge a grand unified theory of medicine (providing solid evidence one way or another about the efficacies of and overlaps within western and eastern medicine, and looking more deeply at the fundamental questions of how and why we heal.)
* hook up an EEG to my head and go meditate in the woods for a few months. (I’ve been meditating since summer 2007.)
* release an album, under a really cool penname, like Blake Wilder. (I’ve been enchanted with music production, electronic music, DJing, and rave / club subculture since high school.) I think I’d call it “The United States of Emergency.” [I used to answer this question by saying "I'd be a hardcore mathematician and a softcore DJ."]
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* a note about this about page: It’s a first draft at a deschooled about page. We normally look for professional rank and academic credentials as a way of gauging someone’s abilities and worth. But those are only as meaningful to you as their reputation — and I want a world where we engage with people on their own merits, not their institutions’.
So I’m trying to figure out what I can tell you that gives you a sense of who I am without the usual tack of listing credentials or time at institutions. I think my work, goals, and play are the most meaningful pieces I can offer. Tell me if this works for you or not!
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My biggest interests are how people organize, learn, and heal.
I believe that people do best when they are in full control of their lives and are supported by a community. What do people need — in terms of community, skills, and resources — to learn, to heal, and fundamentally to get things done? What social structures can be built or leveraged to facilitate any and all of these things?
I think my personal mission is to make learning, work, and play, amazing and the same.
To that end, I’m working on sprout right now — using data in the everyday world as a way to making science personal (be it learning about the physics of baseball or the chemistry of gardening.) It’s deeper goal is to develop a way to ask deeper questions about the world around us and grow our curiousity.
I built Camp Kaleidoscope as a way to explore this theme with children: what happens when you seed an environment with inspiring materials and activities and let kids do what they want?
(more about both on my projects page.)
I’m excited to do and learn pretty much everything.
I realize that a list of interests would be hard-pressed to be complete, or even timely, so I’m going to try answering the following question: if I thought the problem of building communities for healthy learning was solved, what would I do with a year of my time? Options right now include:
* master several medical skills in succession and/or try to forge a grand unified theory of medicine (providing solid evidence one way or another about the efficacies of and overlaps within western and eastern medicine, and looking more deeply at the fundamental questions of how and why we heal.)
* hook up an EEG to my head and go meditate in the woods for a few months. (I’ve been meditating since summer 2007.)
* release an album, under a really cool penname, like Blake Wilder. (I’ve been enchanted with music production, electronic music, DJing, and rave / club subculture since high school.) I think I’d call it “The United States of Emergency.” [I used to answer this question by saying "I'd be a hardcore mathematician and a softcore DJ."]
—–
* a note about this about page: It’s a first draft at a deschooled about page. We normally look for professional rank and academic credentials as a way of gauging someone’s abilities and worth. But those are only as meaningful to you as their reputation — and I want a world where we engage with people on their own merits, not their institutions’.
So I’m trying to figure out what I can tell you that gives you a sense of who I am without the usual tack of listing credentials or time at institutions. I think my work, goals, and play are the most meaningful pieces I can offer. Tell me if this works for you or not!