Sam likes to start things. He was one of the people who started S&R and is the ostensible ringleader. He started The 5th Estate, the precursor to S&R, and for awhile there it was the best thing on the LiveJournal network. And all the way back in April of 1994 he started Lullaby Pit, making it one of the first 2,000 Web sites in the world.
He’s a serious innovator in the business world. He’s founded or co-founded a couple companies, and has developed all kinds of genuinely new, nobody-ever-did-this-before programs for his employers and clients. Recently he started a campaign for president (okay, maybe this part is slightly less serious) around an ambitious Education F1rst initiative.
And his whole damned life he’s been starting trouble of one sort or another.
Let’s see, what else?
- Politically he’s probably most easily labeled as a “moderate progressive,” although he holds some views that are viewed as extremely “conservative.” In general, he feels that our labels are pretty stupid – “left/right” and “blue/red” are mostly clever PR tactics that let the have-mores divide and conquer the have-lesses. There’s a divide in the world, all right, but it ain’t left vs. right – it’s top vs. bottom. Once you process that and factor in his rabid belief in education, you begin to understand why most conventional political distinctions make no sense to him.
- He’s a freak about music, and writes occasionally about music’s role in the broader culture.
- He’s a poet and insists that he’s a novelist, although he wastes too much time blogging to get the novel written.
- He loves sports and gets pretty worked up about its role in the culture, too. He plays baseball and hoops when time and badly deteriorating knees allow.
- Born in February of 1961, Sam is on the very front edge of Generation X, and generational dynamics are a key theme in both his blogging and professional lives.
And in closing, the vital statistics:
- He’s a principal in RazzberrySync, Inc., a mobility consulting firm based in Boston. He also does a good bit of corporate communication and marketing consulting on the side.
- He lives between Denver and Boulder with his wife and an incredibly self-confident Scottish Terrier.
- He earned his BA from Wake Forest, holds an MA from Iowa State, and capped all that book-learnin’ off with a doctorate from the University of Colorado.
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