The questions institutions
refuse to ask

I trained as a sociologist at UC San Diego, studying the sociology of science and knowledge — how institutions construct what counts as "real" and how they manage what doesn't fit. Then I spent three decades inside the machines: mainframe programming in the early '70s, the European tech industry through its formative decades, and risk management at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Swiss Re, where I learned how large institutions quantify the things they're afraid of and ignore the things they can't quantify.

I co-founded the Internet Society's Geneva Chapter in 1998, back when the internet was still something that might have gone differently. I've lived and worked across four continents — from California to the Netherlands to Switzerland, with consulting engagements across Asia and Africa, and now writing from Mexico — which tends to dissolve the assumption that any single culture has a monopoly on reality.

Now I write. My work sits at the intersection of sociology, technology, consciousness studies, and the phenomena that mainstream institutions have spent eighty years pretending don't exist. I call it speculative sociology — applying rigorous analytical frameworks to questions that "serious" people won't touch. If that makes you uncomfortable, you're probably in the right place.