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Brief intro

I live in Tacoma, Washington, USA with my sweetheart Liana and two kids.

I’m a friendly, busy management consultant at Different Chairs. This is where I help my clients and their teams with things like group facilitation, deciding what to do and how to tell if they did it, and plain old making things a little less bad every day. More about this work.

When I’m not doing all that, I read constantly, write intermittently, walk around my neighborhood, loiter in libraries, and meet friends for coffee. The garden is overgrown but I’ve come to enjoy the scruffy look.

I blog pretty regularly here, with some other media like a podcast and newsletter available too; welcome.

Ways we can connect

Hang outs & affiliations

I’m part of these local and online groups. Join me in any of them:

  • Emerge (formerly Kaizen) Coffee. Monthly gathering of folks interested in continuous improvement and independent work. We rotate between locally-owned cafes.
  • A sangha with Tacoma Buddhist Center. We sit weekly for meditation followed by community, readings, and discussion.
  • Lex Roman’s Legends network. An unruly gaggle of a couple hundred people figuring out how to do their best work.

Additional memberships where I am less visible/active:

Find me online

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Thanks for stopping by

If at this point you want the clearest possible view of what goes on inside my brain, you should probably swing by the Quote barn.