Have we met? Probably!

I have been an Alaskan fish butcher, a proto-blogger, a party thrower, a voice AI startup co-founder, the editor of a paranormal magazine, a music critic, a fast-food innovator, an early social video startup creator, a social media butterfly, a Flash developer, a digital product advisor to many media companies, a frequent public bet-maker, the editor of an alt-weekly, a contributing editor at Wired, a dungeon master, a North Dakotan, a New Yorker, a failed pre-med student, a director of the Olympics website, the co-creator of the second-ever flash mob, an encyclopedian, the creator of the first romance news website, a Microsoftie, a public radio tech commentator, a code monkey, a script kiddie, a year-end list aggregator, the editor of a print magazine about the internet, a first amendment defendant against a popular satirist, a microfame faux-expert, an early webshow producer, a kinda shitty guitarist, a slightly better poker player, an aspiring podcaster, an aspiring substacker, an audio app co-founder, an executive producer at msnbc.com, a frequent conference speaker, an early hyperlocal news entrepreneur, an old-skool newspaper webmaster, and part of a team awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

I am an inveterate generalist who liked college profoundly too much. I have three Bachelor’s Degrees (Philosophy, Literature, Psychology), two Minors (Art History and Intellectual History), and an unfinished Masters (Digital Media). I have taught classes in programming, design, and science fiction.

I occasionally write about the intersection of tech and culture. My literary agent is Rachel Vogel, but don't blame her that...