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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 and thriving wild.

I write here at Improve Something Today, with some other stuff 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. Rotates 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

Easiest ways to reach me:

Beyond that, I am:

  • Typing into rectangles at neko.maison (‘chrkrhc’)
  • Bookmarking web sites at chrkrhc.later.place
  • Collecting indie games & media at itch.io
  • Posting links so you can follow along, but mostly not reading, horrible blue websites such as LinkedIn & Bluesky
  • Entirely not on Twitter, Meta horseshit, etc.

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:

Quote barn
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