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I help groups of people organize themselves. You can hire me to facilitate your next big meeting, plan and run your next (virtual) offsite, help your team work more smoothly and productively and predictably, or knit you something warm.

For fun I like to make little programs, visualize data, and build odd furniture and electronic gadgets:³

Project Gallery

Some Blog posts⁴

• Toward a new Theory of Standology

  2020 Aug 26  

  

  I stand before you with a new theory: A desk at standing height, together with a stool chair, makes the best standing desk.
• Empathy for anti-maskers, or, I disagreed with airport security theater but I never hid C4 in somebody's luggage to make my point

  2020 Aug 20  

  

  I was trying to imagine the mindset that scoffs at mask-wearing and even gets violently angry at people wearing masks.
• An easy policy decision: make everything better y/n?

  2020 Aug 8  

  

  Policy usually involves making hard trade-offs. Economics and Project Management call one flavor of tradeoff the “Trilemma”: out of better, faster, and cheaper, you can’t have all three at once.
• More keyboards and more pixels

  2020 Jul 29  

  

  After about eight years of on-and-off tinkering, the Sit/Stand/Walk/Flowerpot Desk is now a Sit/Stand/Play-Piano Desk.
• Wear a Mask. You're Ugly

  2020 Jun 5  

  

  It’s not medical. It’s not political. It’s personal.