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 branded Web sites in the world.
He’s a serious innovator in the business world. He’s founded or co-founded a couple small companies and has developed all kinds of genuinely new, nobody-ever-did-this-before programs for his employers and clients. He started a campaign for president (okay, maybe this wasn’t entirely 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?
- He’s a poet. Really, more than anything, he’s a poet. Who wishes he could earn a living being one.
- He’s a natural born teacher, although he gets frustrated with how little learning is valued in the US. He’s trying, though. He’s taught at a variety of schools, including the University of Colorado, Iowa State University, Salem College, Winston-Salem State, and St. Bonaventure University. He currently teaches a class or two, in all his spare time, in the University of Denver’s University College graduate program.
- Politically he’s probably most easily labeled as a “progressive,” although the “easily” part is guaranteed to lead a slothful thinker into trouble. He holds some views that are seen as extremely “conservative.” In general, he feels that our labels are pretty counter-poductive – “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 loves sports and gets pretty worked up about its role in the culture, too.
- 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.
- Sometimes he talks and writes about himself in the third person.
And in closing, the vital statistics:
- He’s a marketing and communications executive and a principal in RazzberrySync, Inc., a mobility consulting and content firm based in Boston, Denver and SoCal.
- He lives in Denver with an irrationally 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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