Tim Gasperak
@gasperak.com
I'm a designer committed to working with communities of people who want to make change together in response to our most complex challenges.
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꩜ Strange Attractor LLC 🌿 Gregory Bateson scholar 🏴☠️ Punk rock fan
That's helpful. Thanks.
August 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
That's helpful. Thanks.
What is considered a lifestyle intervention? And how do these kinds of interventions (or this framing of interventions) overlap with what some consider to be social determinants or social needs of health interventions?
August 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
What is considered a lifestyle intervention? And how do these kinds of interventions (or this framing of interventions) overlap with what some consider to be social determinants or social needs of health interventions?
It's downright instantaneous!
August 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
It's downright instantaneous!
Excellent album. While maybe not "perfect," 1985 had lots of good music released! The Chameleons, Cocteau Twins, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cult, Hüsker Dü, Kate Bush, Wire Train, The Waterboys, The Pogues, Minor Threat… all put out excellent music that year.
July 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Excellent album. While maybe not "perfect," 1985 had lots of good music released! The Chameleons, Cocteau Twins, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cult, Hüsker Dü, Kate Bush, Wire Train, The Waterboys, The Pogues, Minor Threat… all put out excellent music that year.
E.g. good for the business, but bad for a customer. Good for a customer, but bad for the business. A good engineering solution, but a bad experience. Good experience, but poor infrastructure. Good for both customer and business, but bad for a community, an industry, the planet. Etc.
July 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
E.g. good for the business, but bad for a customer. Good for a customer, but bad for the business. A good engineering solution, but a bad experience. Good experience, but poor infrastructure. Good for both customer and business, but bad for a community, an industry, the planet. Etc.
“Good” seems fraught. There are likely products, services, & experiences that meet a variety of heuristics for “good,” but are still perceived to be “not good,” or despite heuristically being deemed “good” are actually quite bad/harmful outside the limited context of the heuristic frame.
July 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Good” seems fraught. There are likely products, services, & experiences that meet a variety of heuristics for “good,” but are still perceived to be “not good,” or despite heuristically being deemed “good” are actually quite bad/harmful outside the limited context of the heuristic frame.
Always be selling. Always justify your individual value. Always be clear that you're the expert. Prove how much you've contributed yourself, distinct from others. Always show "upward" movement and progression. Never have gaps in your "career." And most importantly: always, always be positive. 🫠
July 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Always be selling. Always justify your individual value. Always be clear that you're the expert. Prove how much you've contributed yourself, distinct from others. Always show "upward" movement and progression. Never have gaps in your "career." And most importantly: always, always be positive. 🫠
Sadly, when we hold social skills as values for relating to others, we have the natural tendency to impose those values onto others. This is a violation of the sovereignty of another being. (2/2)
June 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sadly, when we hold social skills as values for relating to others, we have the natural tendency to impose those values onto others. This is a violation of the sovereignty of another being. (2/2)
Hi to Seattle. I used to live down the block from there at the corner of Queen Anne Ave and Highland.
May 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hi to Seattle. I used to live down the block from there at the corner of Queen Anne Ave and Highland.
Organizational values and ethics. The reduced context of a business relative to the larger social and cultural context of relationships encourages a self-maximizing entity that verges on pathological.
May 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Organizational values and ethics. The reduced context of a business relative to the larger social and cultural context of relationships encourages a self-maximizing entity that verges on pathological.
There's a good article in the realm of this idea that you may find interesting:
Kyle Whyte (2021): Against Crisis Epistemology papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Kyle Whyte (2021): Against Crisis Epistemology papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Against Crisis Epistemology
People who perpetrate colonialism often defend their actions as necessary responses to real or perceived crises. Epistemologies of crisis involve knowing the wo
papers.ssrn.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
There's a good article in the realm of this idea that you may find interesting:
Kyle Whyte (2021): Against Crisis Epistemology papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Kyle Whyte (2021): Against Crisis Epistemology papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Try Kirby CMS – it's a total pleasure.
April 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Try Kirby CMS – it's a total pleasure.
I was involved as a design consultant in two initiatives like this. It wasn't effective in either case. The specific reasons were different in each, but these initiatives don't work as idealized future-state "culture change" processes. Culture is emergent over time based on historical interactions.
March 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I was involved as a design consultant in two initiatives like this. It wasn't effective in either case. The specific reasons were different in each, but these initiatives don't work as idealized future-state "culture change" processes. Culture is emergent over time based on historical interactions.
18F alum here. While I appreciate the well-deserved attention the 18F team is getting, let's address a fundamental misunderstanding of why 18F was so effective in working with other govt agencies to improve their digital services and why starting a consulting company is not a substitute. 1/
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
March 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
That's me holding my portrait of Pableaux above the second line parade.
March 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
That's me holding my portrait of Pableaux above the second line parade.