About —
Citizen of the world, drawing lines between philosophy, technology & design.
Patiently Persistent
Family —
We reside in the heart of the Midwest, with two cheerful and endlessly adventurous boys, a fun-loving and goofy Australian labradoodle named Bravo, and wild prairie grass that extends of days.
The Midwest is the perfect place to raise a family, take leisurely morning walks, and rigorously practice Nietzsche. My wife, my muse, Angela George, inspires me to believe in an unmatched cheerfulness, one capable of reinventing life itself. She constantly reinvents mine.
Sonny (12).
Ross (9).
Bravo (5).
“Just slow things down, and it becomes more beautiful.”
— David Lynch
Lifestyle of Learning: A Personal Manifesto
Philosophy as the creation of concepts teaches us that everyone can participate in the construction of their lives. With no ready-made concepts waiting for us pie-in-the-sky, we are inspired to work with our hands and build-in-the-earth, to construct things that matter, and overcome even ourselves. We’re all capable of the transformations required to bravely innovate our lives. Our task, then, becomes learning how to experiment and architect the procedures needed to enact these radical changes. All that is necessary is that we courageously adopt a beginner’s mind, as we design a way of living. May our pursuit be relentless.
Passions: Family, Photography, Travel, and Walking.
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Lineage
Learning's rhythm · Alfred North Whitehead
Breaking habits of thought · Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
Attention and duration · Henri Bergson
Pattern and aliveness · Christopher Alexander
The body as architecture · Madeline Gins & Arakawa
Intimate space · Gaston Bachelard
Care of the self · Michel Foucault, Pierre Hadot
The prepared environment · Maria Montessori
Tool and the human · Steve Jobs
Ways of seeing · Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Tracey Emin