I have always been interested in how people make worlds together.
I studied religion and philosophy because I wanted to understand how people make worlds together: how ideas become beliefs and identities, how beliefs become habits and culture, how culture shapes psychology and behavior, and how all of that accumulates into organizational and institutional life.
Science and technology taught me to look at the same world through systems, constraints, networks, feedback, evolution, and emergence. After more than two decades leading technology, product, operations, and organizational change, those ways of seeing have converged into a practical habit: I look for both the architecture and the human system living through it.
That perspective matters anywhere technology changes how an organization works. It becomes especially important when technology also carries ideas, learning, culture, or public purpose. In those settings, technology is not simply infrastructure. It shapes how knowledge moves, how people encounter the work, how trust is created, and what the organization can become.
Religion at Swarthmore · M.A. at Union Theological Seminary · doctoral work at Villanova
Understand the architecture. Understand the people living through it.
Philosophy, science, technology, and an unfinished world.
My thinking has developed through a long conversation among philosophy, science, and technology: Hegel and developmental thought; Whitehead and process philosophy; Teilhard de Chardin’s evolutionary vision; James P. Carse and infinite play; complexity science, emergence, evolution, and the sciences of living systems.
Just as formative has been a lifetime spent with computing, networks, software, AI, and technological systems themselves. I do not think of technology as the place where ideas get applied after the thinking is over. Technology changes what people can know and do, how organizations organize themselves, and what forms of relationship and possibility become available.
There is a spiritual conviction underneath this for me: love, relationship, and creativity belong at the center of how we understand our lives together. I want that conviction to have practical consequences—in whose perspectives shape a product, how a team treats its people, and what an organization makes possible.
Still, in the deepest sense, a student of how people and systems grow, adapt, and discover new possibilities.