Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, I spent much of 2020 co-authoring a study on working adult learners and their labor-market counterparts: rank-and-file hiring managers who fill job openings every day. The report was published by SkillUp.org (here) and endeavors to answer the question: why have so-called “dual-customer training programs” largely failed to change the economic circumstances of millions?
In 2019, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis asked me to use language to help their deeply wounded organization heal and rebuild trust. Through a series of ‘ideology’ workshops, I crafted a ‘Cultural Constitution,’ which served as a touchstone in a department-wide retreat where norms were officially re-set. I presented and delivered beautifully printed and bound copies for the 75-person group (press files here).
Based on my white paper commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education in October 2017, my co-author and I wrote this EdSurge article in June 2018 urging the postsecondary sector to re-think whom the “human” really ought to be in “human-centered design”—we hypothesize it’s actually not the student.
The VC firm Obvious Ventures commissioned me to write this piece in for their digital publication World Positive about new business models in higher-ed.
I wrote this piece in Fast Company about the value of versatility at work—and how to develop it in yourself.
I wrote this piece in Fast Company about the limits of workplace collaboration and whether or not it's gone too far.
I wrote this piece for San Francisco's The New Fillmore newspaper about my grad school thesis project: an interactive walking tour to designed to improve community resilience in the Fillmore.
I wrote this piece in Fast Company about the rise of freelance "comprehensivists"—knowledge workers with polymathic tendencies in multiple disciplines.
I wrote this piece published in IDEO Stories about the final frontier of systems design and integrated innovation: the business model itself.
I wrote the web copy on the origins of a travel startup I co-founded with my sister and others called YachtLegend.
I wrote the web copy on the product concept behind a travel startup I co-founded with my sister and others called YachtLegend.
I wrote the mission statement copy for a travel startup I co-founded with my sister and others called YachtLegend.
I wrote the vision statement copy for a travel startup I co-founded with my sister and others called YachtLegend.
I wrote the company values copy for a travel startup I co-founded with my sister and others called YachtLegend.
I wrote this travel piece published by Elite Daily on three essential travel destinations that die-hard travelers should hit before turning 40.
I wrote this lifestyle piece published by Elite Daily on transitioning gracefully from one's late 20s into the 30s. Shared over nine thousand times.
I wrote this lifestyle piece published by Elite Daily on combatting the feeling that "youth is wasted on the young" with strong doses of wanderlust.
I wrote the President's annual letter to stakeholders in the 2010-2011 audited financial statements for the University of California.
I wrote the chief financial officer's annual letter to stakeholders in the 2010-2011 audited financial statements for the University of California.
I wrote the chief financial officer's annual letter to stakeholders in the 2009-2010 audited financial statements for the University of California.
I wrote a near-future dystopia in the medium of Interactive Fiction. Its proximity to reality might ring a little too true. To play the game, simply type natural-language commands of what you would like to do.