If you can't sustain focus on one subject for more than the length of a bowel movement, leave now by clicking here. Only a few pieces in the content section come in at op-ed length. I believe that considered exploration of an idea takes more than 800 words. (My wife thinks I'm a windbag.) Plow through, however, and you may find it worthwhile. Don't look for answers though.

What an eclectic bundle of ever-widening influences and interests inform my writing. I was a hard-right capitalist puppy up to and through my undergraduate education. Then, disillusioned by the meaninglessness of the "rat race," I searched for greater purpose. (There is none.) That took me to studying history and philisophical implications in its creation, specifically teleology and historiography. The former became an undercurrent in my understanding of the business and political worlds. Stewart Brand influenced my thinking about strategy and life in general, though we've never met. His Clock of the Long Now, when added to Braudel's notion of la longue duree, puts the import and point of our daily tempests into proper perspective.

In short, there is a cornucopia of influences which drive thoughts on a disparate set of subjects that I have categorized as follows.

Business -- This is the milieu I spend the most time in and, arguably, have the most understanding of. In any event, I have some thoughts about business from the "e" variety through marketing and the role of business in the world and in our daily lives.

Identity -- Work on digital certificates led to digital identity led to simple identity and what it means in an expanding virtual world imposing itself on the physical world we know and understand. This area includes trust, privacy, and philosophy of self in the social context.

Context -- Context is a general fit-all category header for things that interest me which link together in a book I'm working on. It includes complexity theory, entropy, emergence, power laws, etc., etc. "The Theory of Everything" seems just a little too broad and over-weaning.

Errata -- My mind travels to many subjects. In this section is a broad array of thoughts, ideas, recommendations, opinion, and whimsy in many styles.

Academic -- For the academically oriented, particularly those interested in the arcana of certain types and periods of history, are a number of essays and papers from my graduate studies and later.

Note that there may not be as much content as might appear at first glance because I've cross-referenced some items in multiple categories.