About John
I am a…
Brainstormer, Consultant, Designer, Entrepreneur, Gay, Idea generator, Single, Startup, Web guru, Writer/Editor
I'm passionate about
Helping clients translate their business objectives into elegant, highly usable, category-killing, genre-dominating, paradigm-busting websites and software.
The TED story
I got hooked on TED in 1999 when TEDster Tom Rielly recruited me to stay up all night to glue photos to the ends of long poles for a reenactment of Apple's spinning translucent iMac G3 commercials as part of the TED wrap-up. In the years that followed, I found myself producing and co-writing these TED satires. In that role, I experienced Secret-Service-generated flop-sweat inside a gorilla costume backstage, had to find a blow-up sex doll in greater Monterey with matching underwear for Tom, and on stage I have been slapped in the face while wearing a kimono loosely inspired by Chris Anderson's Asian-accented shirt.