Who Am I Today?
I always struggle with introductions.
One of two things happens: My mind goes completely blank and I have to spend a few extra beats reorganizing the new information through my synesthetic senses; sometimes, I miss context clues, lead with the wrong thing, and all parties involved end up a little confused.
By virtue of my neurodevelopmental difference, I am literally wired to be a creative person and a lateral thinker. Layering an unusual and difficult start in a place known for innovation, I had access to knowledge, resources, and cultures different from mine. I assumed everyone was built like me, thought like me, and had just as much–if not more–knowledge or access than me.
Life had to take several turns and dips before I could commit to understanding why I had these assumptions and relearn how to engage with the world while honoring my differences and those of others.
I am a facilitator. I have a knack for systems, processes, risk management, and forecasting. I have had two moderately-successful careers in highly-competitive fields and have been a quiet yet key player in getting people what they need via class action lawsuits, ensuring promised benefits do not lapse, and within the product marketing organizations of technology companies. I have stories and receipts, but recent twists of fate put me on the radar of people with more money and power than I, and they’ve been mad enough to spend both.
To be clear, and to the best of my knowledge, my activities have always been within the bounds of the law. It also tickles my funny bone that a specific type of man, one who holds zero-sum and short-sighted philosophies, had to invent a conspiracy where there wasn’t one to preserve an ego as fragile as his grasp of reality. Maybe, that was the reason one or more of them got tossed out of the pizza parlor and banned in multiple places back before the search engine wars had begun.
So. Um. Yeah.
I’ve been around in various forms for a hot minute. Sometimes participating. Often watching. Mostly moving quietly from place to place. Learning. Growing. And capturing the experience in a variety of formats over the course of decades.
I’ll end this here by saying: It’s time.