My Talks
Friends' Meeting for Project Planning
Consensus building is the backbone of Quaker organizations. Decisions are reached when the meeting, as a whole, feels that the "way forward" has been discerned. We examine how the Society of Friend...
Happy Campers: Lessons Learned from Scouting's Premier Leadership Course
Much like Open Source, the World Scouting Movement is a primarily volunteer based organization. Unlike the Open Source Movement they provide coordinated training for their leaders that helps furthe...
I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: How Cognitive Linguistics Can Help You Be A (More) Bad-ass Developer
The field of cognitive linguistics-- which combines aspects of neuro-biology, linguistics, and epistemology-- offers clues about how we think, and how we can think more productively about the probl...