I am a post-boomer/pre-digital native who spends as much time online as off. Currently self-employed as an author and productivity and happiness coach, I have worked in jobs ranging from bookstore owner to senior software product manager. When my work hasn’t centered on organization and effective flow, it has been anchored around the reading life, whether on the printed page or a glowing computer screen. A constant theme throughout has been streamlining processes to help achieve goals better, faster, and with more enjoyment along the way; in other words, increasing awesomeness.

I created the holiday Discardia in 2002 and have been writing about its principles ever since, intensively with a Discardian tip a day during 2006, currently with active Discardia communities in Facebook and Twitter and a revived Discardia.com. My book, Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff, came out in September 2011.

I am a founding member of the blogging community, having launched my personal site, MetaGrrrl.com, in 1998 and acted as midwife to the word ‘blog’ in 1999, when I worked with the founders of Blogger.com.

In 1991 I was co-creator of Strafe’s Guide to Streetspeak and helped bring it to the web in 1997, making it if not the first cyberpunk slang dictionary, the first one online.

I have been a member of the advisory board for SXSW Interactive and a technology advisor and an adjunct professor for San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science (from which I received my M.L.I.S.)

I volunteer as the city-wide Twitter voice of the San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams and as a member of my local team.

Along with my interest in helping to define the next century of the movement born out of voluntary simplicity, uncluttering, and self-help, I write at varying lengths – from books to tweets – about history, technology, science, and classic cocktails and am currently working on two new books.

(Photo by Robin Andersen)

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