NewWays Idea Developers

I'm a Solutionist.
Meaning that when there's problems, I like to find ways of solving them. The science of problem solving is how I go about this, using design thinking informed by everything else infront of me. I don't have one problem I chase after, and I haven't dedicated myself to a specific cause, and not sure I ever will.

Working with small groups on big problems that will generate meaningful wealth (social, ecological, and economical) is the most rewarding activity I can think of, and the best way I've found to spend my working life.

I grew up here on my family 7 generation 228 year old fruit farm. As I kid I spend my time finding my own way and exploring the space around me. Everything from attics to massive sewer drains, from forests to fields were all a days walking distance away and I was lucky enough to have parents that wanted me out of the house during the day! At nights I'd read Encyclopedias and National Geographics, and every week or so  work on some rediculous project with my dad, like trying to make hydrogen in the bath-tub, or welding up grappling hooks to be able to explore better during the day. We'd often stay up at night around the kitchen table, talking or learning to read out-loud, or with challenges. I'd challenge him to remember things when he was my age, and he'd challenge me to count to a thousand, or to name countries in proximity to others on our globe.


I hope the future will...
Intelligence amplifaction is a big deal. We do it slowly clumbsily with notebooks, cell phones, calculators, and dictionaries. We're doing it a little faster with some IT developments, but when it all gets close to as fast as thinking, when we're hooked right up, that's going to be an interesting step most of us will actually get to see and feel within our lifetimes.
Hopefully, falsely global networks involving certain manufacturating and supply chains reveal their weaknesses and are squashed by the market, and that we can find appropriate ways to globalize.
It will become easier and easier for people to express themselves and build things as time goes on, to solve their own problems from the bottom up, that the power to create becomes more distributed and more empowering.
Balance is the name of the game. Many of us seek imbalance of wealth, but balance is this century's new mandate, to find balance with eachother and with our environment. We will never get there as all massive and chaotic systems (6billion people), require imbalancing factors, but I think we'll get much closer. That the invisble imbalances in peoples lives will be made visible allowing them to make corrections. That our mistakes will become easier to see, and the consequences of our actions will drive good changes.

I try not to forget that I'm Human...
The experience of being a person and doing outlandish things is the best. I pick up new hobbies all the time, ask people what they think, notice the feeling of sun on my skin, and savour the taste of a great cup of coffee. I work towards things, love people, and laugh with my family. I'm limited, fragile, and imperfect in every way, and that's part of the deal!!

We're lucky just to be able to talk to people and experience nature and to try and figure all this out, but we're even luckier when we gain understanding of just how amazing and complex it all is.