In addition to my work as CEO at The IC, I'm working on some passion projects about perspective, coherence and belonging –
Just launched 🦅
- Threshold Advisory
- Advisory for leaders, makers and seekers navigating complexity.
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I've been working in and around software for 30+ years, alongside some deep explorations of futures research, leadership development, and contemplative Christianity. I don't think of these as separate careers so much as different angles on the same question — how do people stay coherent and act wisely when the ground keeps shifting? I'm a translator by temperament, more comfortable at the edges between domains than at the centre of any one of them. Most of what I do comes back to these simple things: helping people and groups think clearly under complexity, and noticing what's quietly trying to emerge.
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I run The Interaction Consortium. We build digital platforms for museums and cultural institutions, large & small, and web and mobile applications for people with interesting ideas. If you need some smart people who can help you build something, you should get in touch.
In addition to my work as CEO at The IC, I'm working on some passion projects about perspective, coherence and belonging –
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Getting Started with Meditation is a short guide that does what it says in the title. Non-sectarian. Full of links and references. I think it’s a solid starting point.
When a dog passes is a little essay that I wrote after my partner and I lost our dog and then some friends lost their dog. I was thinking about dogs and how we love them and what grieving means. This was not so long after my mum died, so that was in my mind too. People ask me for this sometimes.
You may think you love Hafiz is a thing I wrote to repost when well-meaning friends post “Hafiz” quotes on social media, not realising that they’re usually reposting something written by the American poet Daniel Ladinsky. Feel free to use it yourself!
If you find yourself single on Valentine’s Day… is a little, short (hopefully) poetic thing that I sometimes post on Valentine’s Day. It’s meant to be encouraging for people who are single because sometimes that day’s tough if you are.
Once, I used to run a bunch of web projects on the domain timbomb.net (which was also my usual user id on lots of systems). I've closed most of those projects down over the years, but you can find some of them on the Wayback Machine –
Just one still runs – an online campaign I created with friends to oppose racism on gay dating sites. We created a term for racial prejudice in choosing intimate partners – "sexual racism" – because there wasn't a clear term for it. The idea spread and is now a part of the discourse in the LGBTQIA community although the problem hasn't gone away. The original campaign site still exists, looked after by others.