Across my 10 years as CTO/Founder of Inxight Software and the 10 years before at Xerox PARC, I designed and evangelized software systems that extend human intellectual and creative reach. At Inxight Software, I learned a great deal about applying Information Flow technologies in a variety of markets. The great blessing of my job was that it has allowed me to cross borders freely and see how lots of things really matter. The usuals: technology and markets, customers and company, inside and outside, sales, marketing, and engineering, vision and execution.

At PARC, my research and inventions spanned relevant areas including search, information access, digital libraries, information visualization, linguistic applications, user interfaces, and software architecture. I first came to PARC after my freshman year at MIT. There, the Alto and the Graphical User Interface in its infancy swept me free of the allure of Artificial Intelligence to the alternate mission of building tools that extend human abilities. Five years later, I returned to be part of inventing new things aimed at mainstream impact and that eventually led to the founding of Inxight.

This site focuses on articles, talks, and thoughts mostly about Information Flow. Roughly, it's about getting value from all the stuff on computers and networks, and particularly how all that stuff can make us individually and collectively more intelligent. Another way of saying that: it's about intelligent approaches to information access and use that make people, organizations, and society productive, creative, and more intelligent. Various disciplines and topics are relevant:

• Information Science and Architecture -- organizing information for access and use
• Knowledge Work and Workers -- workers, workplaces, and how knowledge work really happens
• Information Visualization and Design -- using visual techniques and graphic design to increase the bandwidth of interaction
• Content Access Technologies -- software technologies for categorizing, organizing, analyzing, and tagging content
• Software Architecture and Design -- how representation, computation, and infrastructure impact information access
• Power Tools -- tools for individuals that enhance productivity and make them smarter, more informed, more creative
• Broader, Wilder -- the broader design, business, and cultural context and the wilder edge that reveal possible futures