I care about grand challenges at human scale. Collaboration, Technology, Business, Communication, Product Leadership.

Coding since 1972.

Bar mitzvah since 1973.

Internet since 1979.

Alumnus of NavSupSysCom, Gateway, Compaq (employee 56), Wang Labs, Bechtel National, LSI Logic, Adecco SA.

Wrote and spoke on advances in management, technology, and collaboration since 1998.

Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute since 2000.

Co-founded and led a 5000 volunteer local political organization that made one million calls to swing states in 2004.

Edited Skype Journal since 2005, consulting on realtime collaboration and over-the-top platforming since 2006.

Program advisor to the Emerging Communications Conference since 2006.

Director of the not-for-profit DataPortability Project since 2008.

Strategy and communication for the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium since 2011.

Quora Top Writer 2012, 2013, 2018.

Member of the OpenOakland Code for America civic hacker brigade since 2013.

Taught surgeons how to give orders online since 2016.

Helped enterprises execute GDPR Privacy strategies since 2017.

Helping technology executives make strategic Identity of Things choices since 2020 at Wider.Team.