Here are the major projects I’m working on. Most of them relate in some way to proximity thinking, although that may not be obvious at first. Together, they are my attempt at creating sustainable variety in my life, and promoting and enabling sustainable variety for other people as well. It’s a bit of an experiment!

Proximity Thinking (ProxThink) Framework
ProxThink is a proximity-focused framework for creativity, innovation, problem-solving, sustainability and living. The proximity thinking framework mainly consists of three integrated parts: The Basics help us describe and discuss situations. The ProxPatterns are especially helpful for creativity, innovation and problem-solving. The Growth Model boosts collaboration and encourages growth for people who share a proximity. Closely related projects include the Let’s Be More Alive — Intro to ProxThink online course, and the ProxThinkers Facebook group. For more on proximity thinking, here’s the main site …

Shared Situation Guide and Shared Situations Site
Shared situations can improve and become more lively when people can relate to the proximity of their shared situation. The Shared Situation Guide helps groups do that in mobile, networked ways. This may assist any group with a shared situation, from friends and associates, to neighborhoods and communities, and even to regions and beyond. The shared situations site has links to begin using the guide, provides starter sets for some common situations, points to workshops for learning the guide, and helps people find and collaborate with others using the guide for shared situations. More here …

ProxThink Services
I offered ProxThink-related events, online training, collaboration/coaching, idea sessions, speaking and consulting. More here …

SustaVariety Membership Community
Creating ways to be more alive, and to create, collaborate and live with some proximity thinking approaches for creating sustainable variety, our SustaVariety membership community provides other benefits as well. These include various online sessions, connecting and collaborating with other members, influencing the evolution of SustaVariety, plus many other benefits. More here …

ProxThink River (the ProxThink blog)
The ProxThink River blog helps people relate to the ProxThink site, ideas, patterns, models and tools through examples, discussions, updates, video and public collaborations. More here …

ProxThink YouTube Channel
The ProxThink channel can help you learn and use proximity thinking. More here …

Proximity Thinkers LA – Meetup Group
A meetup group to learn and leverage proximity thinking in more interactive, personal and social ways. It’s for personal, social, career and business challenges. It’s also for challenges we share with other people in groups, organizations, neighborhoods, communities, the Los Angeles region and beyond. More here …

Sustainable Proximities Approach and Sustainable Variety
In a nutshell, the sustainable proximities approach leverages technology and networks in a different way by applying the ProxThink growth model, which was designed for networks. The sustainable proximities approach can lead to greater sustainable variety. More here …

Variety People
Variety is the quality or state of being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity, sameness, or monotony. Variety people are people who value, allow, seek and manage variety in their lives. VarietyPeople.org aims to encourage variety and help variety people manage the dance between variety and stability. It’s a largely user-generated place to connect and share experiences, resources, ideas, events, articles, questions and ways of managing variety. In the process, perhaps we can become happier, healthier and more sustainable. And we might get what you could call some sustainable variety. More here …

Variety People LA – Meetup Group
A meetup group for people who value, allow, seek, manage and enjoy variety in their lives. A group to explore, enjoy, network, collaborate, share and experience with other variety people or those who want to be variety people. More here …

Proxri.org
Proxri (pronounced prox’ree) is short for one or more ProxRewards, which are rewards made with the proximity in mind. Proxri.org serves to promote and coordinate the use of proxri, both online and off, by providing information, resources, ways to use proxri in your life, and links to other people using proxri. More here …

Artsdown
Artsdown is a place to explore and post downloadable arts and things related to downloadable arts (such as links, reviews, events, products, services, ideas and experiences), as well as a place to comment on postings and reward (proxri) arts creators. More here …

Art, Photos, Videos
I’m interested in making interesting things to look at and think about. That’s a deceptively simple thing to say. More here …