Photography
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I've shot over 200,000 photos digitally since 2003. Here are some highlights from the past couple decades.
McMinnville, Oregon
Writer, product builder, internet person. Early blogger. Making things on the web since 1995.
About
I have over 25 years of experience as a writer, designer, and coder building products and experiences on the web. I live in Oregon and predominantly work from my home office.
I founded MetaFilter in 1999 and ran it for 16 years. Before that I helped build Blogger at Pyra Labs, and served as Creative Director at Creative Commons from soon after its inception through its public launch. I spent seven years in marketing at Slack working on every piece of content imagineable.
I'm a jack of all trades; I can code websites, build databases, shoot and edit video, and I've got over a decade of experience in podcasting. I've also been an investor and technical advisor to a dozen different ventures.
My favorite type of work is taking complex, dense concepts and making them accessible and understandable to everyone. My bylines include the New York Times, Slack's blog, Zapier, and a few co-authored books.
Photography
I've shot over 200,000 photos digitally since 2003. Here are some highlights from the past couple decades.
Writing
Taking complex, technical networking protocols and making them understandable by the masses. This is the kind of writing I love most — finding the human story inside the technical detail.
Read moreOne of 50+ user education posts I wrote at Slack — tips anyone can use to find what they're looking for faster.
Read moreA manifesto for sharing marketing information about products and services without wasting a reader's time.
View archive"I still find the web endlessly fascinating — the marriage of art and technology that hooked me in 1995 never got old."
— Matthew Haughey