Hi. Dorian here.

Like I said, I'm an independent researcher and design theorist. I've been making things on the internet since my teens in the 90s. My main professional focus is on the design of information systems for facilitating the comprehension and uptake of complex situations and their attendant dynamics. My motto, for the last 20 years, has been Make things. Make sense.

The ways this research focus cashes out, concretely, include:

• Highly malleable, yet durable infrastructure for representing situations, such as my ongoing project, The Wholeness Stack,
• Strategies for choosing our economic and information-sharing relationships, reinforced by open standards and open-source software,
• Information hygiene and the problem of provenance, i.e., where a given piece of information came from, who said it and when, and why we should—or shouldn't—believe it.

Professionally, I apply this expertise under the brand Method & Structure, where I help organizations with strategic foresight and theory-building, the planning and de-risking of resources and projects, and integrating open-source and open standards into their information infrastructure.