Steve's Home Page

Welcome to my personal web site, where you can find a few bits and pieces of my life. Living as a gypsy for the past thirteen years, twelve of them abroad, it is difficult to maintain contact and keep people apprised of my whereabouts and doings. If anything exciting happens to me, I will be try to write about it in these pages. You might want to add this page to your bookmarks, but don't feel obliged to check it daily....

I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or social goals.

--Libertarian Party pledge

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I worked for six years in Ruesselsheim, Germany, next to the main Opel (General Motors Europe) factory, where my company, Raytheon Professional Services, is a large player in the training management and consulting industry. I now work for another division, back in Russia, but the same themes keep recurring.

Project Management

Project Management Institute

Learning Technology

Knowledge Management

International Institute of Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management Consortium

PlanetIT

During my 28 days on the job in Sakhalin, I don't play much at all. During my off time, I spend a fair amount of time communicating in Esperanto, whether by e-mail, in local meetings, or in international gatherings. I am involved in the Free State Project, which aims to gather a critical mass of libertarians in a single small state to finally implement libertarian reforms.

I used to read a heck of a lot about evolutionary psychology, but I seem to have pretty much assimilated it. Simple principles generate a very complex world. If there is an "-ism" to which I adhere, it would have to be Reductionism, which in fact this entire web site is a shrine to.

Significant educational institutions in my life

I grew up in Simi Valley and graduated from Simi Valley High School.
I got a BS from Harvey Mudd College and an an MS from University of California at Los Angeles
I then spent a year at Leningrad State University, now known as the University of Sankt Peterburg
I support the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University

I lived in Votkinsk, Russia (in Udmurtia, just west of the Ural mountains) for three years in a forest next to the Votkinsk Machine-Building Plant, and then spent another year in Kiev, Ukraine doing related disarmament work. I then spent six years in Germany, where my company did all the retailer training for Opel (General Motors Europe). Now I live on the Russian island of Sakhalin, just north of Japan.

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