I'm a philosopher, social scientist, and designer. I believe the current political moment demands a change in the way human systems (social networks, political systems, organizations) are designed; and making this change means having a clearer understanding of people (and of how they live and cooperate).
I work on questions like:
- How people sort out what's important to them. (See my essays on values, values and emotions, values and metrics, values economic demand, and values and facts)
- How a person's choices are shaped by the array of social games at hand. (See my talk on empowering design featuring a redesign of the ios lock screen, the list of example framing distortions from software, a variety of dating and other games made and tested, and work in immersive, participatory theater.)
My work has provided the basis for an online school called Human Systems. This has an email list and medium blog with all of my work. You can also find me personally on twitter.
I am grateful to the philosophers, computer scientists, and improvisers who laid the groundwork I build on.