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Austin, TX, US

Helping spawn AI character for developing friendships named Tanaki.Extending the character intelligence work done by Pasquale D’Silva.Fundraising to expand the Lingonberry Friend System, a modular social protocol system designed to increase depth of friendship in a fragmented social age through ritual, play, and collaboration.Acting as a producer and.

A social design studio founded with Kristen Pavle to bring our social design R&D work to marketin partnership with founders.

Product design & development for a modular creativity practice system based on the long musical teaching practice of Jason Kleinberg. I'm helping package and refine his teaching system into a product offering. It's very fun work.

Relational.org A self-funded social media design lab.At relational we’ve cultivated a space to develop social protocols of distributed work which aspire to grow higher quality social media experiences.We experiment with novel ways of organizing, communicating, and playing.We’ve begun collecting our findings into a social protocol library.Grew out of a.

Multiplayer journaling / blogging app.An attempt at creating a context for more intimate online publishing.Surfaced the Chatlogging patternFirst deep collab with Kristen

Chicago, IL, US

Learned about designing and scaling a web2 SAAS company.Practiced creative and product leadership, network marketing, recruiting, product development, and the millions of little jobs and tasks it takes to run a bootstrap org.Designed the most popular (at the time) system for displaying an online portfolio.Designed a number of widely recognized marketing.

Learned what being a partner and founder is like.Hard knocks lessons in client relations, marketing, the business of creativity, partnership relations, branding, building internet properties.Designed websites, album covers. and merch for bands on Capital Records, Island/Def Jam, Revelation Records.