Fifteen years ago I helped to found Blue Oxen Associates, a sort of think tank in the realm of high performance collaboration. Our thinking, later described as The Blue Oxen Way, was heavily based in the work of Doug Engelbart, his ideas of augmentation, and the idea that the computer …

Part of the series of notes describing why I do what I do and what it is that is being done. This is transcribed from notes taken during a solo meal.

In a basic way, what I've been trying to do since I was a system administrator at an ISP …

Since What I Do failed to capture it, I declared that I would try again. It wasn't until last night that I had any inspiration. Talking with friends, I was told that another friend had said that what I was good at was "knowing the right thing to do" and …

Back in 2003, as part of my work with BlueOxenAssociates, one of my more controversial assertions was that the most effective collaboration emerged out of anarchic processes. I wrote about it at the time in a blog posting entitled Anarchic Emergent Collaboration.

My belief at the time, and now, is …