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About Me
I’m a User Experience Architect by profession. I’ve worked across several platforms and industries; you can check out my work website at Human Interaction Design.
That’s not where I began. From a young age I had an interest in philosophy, art, culture and notably ideas. At university I studied psychology, cognitive science, consciousness studies and philosophy. That became my platform for thinking about academic philosophy which, for a while I accepted without question.
As time led to life and as I read more, I felt several things were missing. A synthesis of ideas, a lack of openness to literature and dogma made the world I jumped into feel constricted. Ironically I realized that all the scholarship was fine so long as you towed the party line. The result for me was what I saw as camps of people saying the same kinds of things. Even that seemed odd, anti-synthetic and narrow.
First person methodologies started to become more accepted as I left university. Phenomenology, despite having a long history was being reincorporated into cognitive science and I saw a strong case for triangulating first and third person data as an opportunity to reach some strong hypotheses about the mind, the brain and our experiences as human beings.
Fortunately or unfortunately life called. However, a deep passion for ideas and continued reading were always important to me. So I kept writing in notebooks and working through ideas and most importantly I never lost focus of the central pieces of an idea that inspired me as a young student.
Today I work with metaphors that people interact with. But, for me all metaphors, all ideas and the artifacts of society are pieces of a whole that is a system of moments; moments of recognition, subjectivity and inter-subjectivity that we pass though as we move through the world either as people or as people.
I’m married, I have a great job and am a very lucky person. I do count my blessings. That said I also can’t help looking past the world in front of me and wondering about the system of ideas that’s been a part of who I am.
I’m a User Experience Architect by profession. I’ve worked across several platforms and industries; you can check out my work website at Human Interaction Design.
That’s not where I began. From a young age I had an interest in philosophy, art, culture and notably ideas. At university I studied psychology, cognitive science, consciousness studies and philosophy. That became my platform for thinking about academic philosophy which, for a while I accepted without question.
As time led to life and as I read more, I felt several things were missing. A synthesis of ideas, a lack of openness to literature and dogma made the world I jumped into feel constricted. Ironically I realized that all the scholarship was fine so long as you towed the party line. The result for me was what I saw as camps of people saying the same kinds of things. Even that seemed odd, anti-synthetic and narrow.
First person methodologies started to become more accepted as I left university. Phenomenology, despite having a long history was being reincorporated into cognitive science and I saw a strong case for triangulating first and third person data as an opportunity to reach some strong hypotheses about the mind, the brain and our experiences as human beings.
Fortunately or unfortunately life called. However, a deep passion for ideas and continued reading were always important to me. So I kept writing in notebooks and working through ideas and most importantly I never lost focus of the central pieces of an idea that inspired me as a young student.
Today I work with metaphors that people interact with. But, for me all metaphors, all ideas and the artifacts of society are pieces of a whole that is a system of moments; moments of recognition, subjectivity and inter-subjectivity that we pass though as we move through the world either as people or as people.
I’m married, I have a great job and am a very lucky person. I do count my blessings. That said I also can’t help looking past the world in front of me and wondering about the system of ideas that’s been a part of who I am.
