Matt Keene
Bio
Hi! I’m Matt. Let’s be friends!
My daughters and I are learning together. We call it home/un/pro/am/anti/re/no/go schooling. I’m getting more out of it than them. But I’m doing my best, living our values and:
- Creating a Future We Want (~ inventory of my life/work, under construction)
- Bringing to the "classroom" my 20+ years of evaluation praxis mostly from the nexus of social, natural and systems sciences (lots of that was at US EPA).
- Designing an Evaluative Evolution amidst the accelerating coevolution of Nature, Humans, and AI.
- Not writing too many more not-too-good plays about AI that no one cares about.
Like a talented freesurfer, will someone sponsor me? No income. Need some.
I've been into Effectiveness for a while now. Here's a paper by cool peeps that I gathered together that discusses some dimensions of my perspective.
How others can help me
Would be terrific just to be meeting new folks, joining and starting conversations that go no where purposefully or go somewhere accidentally.
How I can help others
I know a good number of folks (practitioners and academics) in the disciplines of Evaluation, Biodiversity Conservation, Systems Thinking/Complexity, and elsewhere. I am very happy to make introductions and/or have a conversation about any of these topics...and any other topic that doesn't include too many acronymns.
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How do folks! Stoked to have the opportunity to try and be a participant that contributes something meaningful here on the EA Forum.
EA Forum Guidelines (and Aaron)...thank you for the guidance and encouraging me to write the bio.
All, I'm new to the EA community. I'll hope to meet some of you soon. Please feel free to send a hello anytime.
I see the "Commenting Guidelines". They remind me of the Simple Rules of Inquiry that I've used for many years. Are they a decent match for the spirit of this Forum?
- Turn judgment into curiosity
- Turn conflict into shared exploration
- Turn defensiveness into self-reflection
- Turn assumptions into questions
What do I care about? I've been unanimously appointed to the post of lead head deputy associate administrator facilitator of my daughters' education (6 and 10) . I love them. Our educational praxis is designed to enable them to realize an evaluative evolution and create a future we want amidst the accelerating coevolution of Nature, Humans and AI. No presh. They spell great. Well, one out of two anyway.
I also care about the chill peeps sweeping the beach with metal detectors wearing headsets. I want to learn more but I don't want to be rude and interrupt what they are listening to.
See you in the funny papers.
Matt
(I'm reading the commenting guidelines wondering which ones I violated. Like a historian, I'm not sure if I was explaining or pursuading. I certainly wasn't clear. I disagreed with almost everything I wrote...didn't I? Okay. So. How do I ask readers where they went after they got kicked off this Forum? Tbc, I want to stay.).
How do folks! Stoked to have the opportunity to try and be participant that contributes something meaningful here on the EA Forum.
Aaron, thank you for the guidance and encouraging me to write the bio. Done.
All, I'm new to the EA community. I'll hope to meet some of you soon. Please feel free to send a hello anytime.
I see the "Commenting Guidelines". They remind me of the Simple Rules of Inquiry that I've used for many years. Are they a decent match for the spirit of this Forum?
- Turn judgment into curiosity
- Turn conflict into shared exploration
- Turn defensiveness into self-reflection
- Turn assumptions into questions
Take care,
Matt
PS - I saw another "open thread" for introductions so I'll post this same thing there
Thank you Felix. Nice to feel welcome.
Grateful for the new opportunities and resources you've shared. We will look into them and keep them handy.
I appreciate the website feedack...It is a work in progress and I could do much better at tidying things up that I won't likely get to in the near term. On it!
Thank you for your service to educate our friends and peers about the environment.
Take good care of yourself Felix.
Matt