Since August 2007, I have been working intently to understand and articulate the role of the creative professional, the character of knowledge work, and the importance of post-industrial business.

Over the course of this somewhat unexpected journey, I have considered not only tools and tactics, but processes, strategies, management, organizational and business methods, as well as the attitude, language and philosophy necessary to frame the discourse.

The result of my work so far is something of an unwieldy monolith. Over the course of this process I found it advantageous to abandon the idea of projects, in the conventional sense, as first-order entities. Instead, I adopted a method of bootstrapping and gradual stiffening, in which I accumulate a connected body of intellectual capital on an ongoing basis, and periodically mine its contents for useful components.

It is perhaps more appropriate, then, to focus on artifacts that I have produced, rather than prematurely commit to a result that might turn out not to be useful.

• Most of my work in the last few years has been in the form of writing, which I archive on this site. I have incorporated, to some extent, the capabilities of hypertext to improve its uptake, which in turn has provided a great deal of insight into the structure and management of a hypertext system.
• The site itself encodes a great deal of the patterns I have learned in over 15 years of working with the Web, but no more than those that I am confident are correct and which will not compromise further maturation. Until I work out some of the more systemic behaviours, I am keeping a relatively low profile.
• In 2011 I did a considerable amount of work around content strategy, including site analyses, semantic annotation and narrative continuity.