WhoAmI - Snapshot October 2006

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After telling you all so much about the discovery that I came to last weekend, I got super intimidated about capturing who it is that I am. I mean, what if it wasn't as exciting as the feeling of discovery, or what if I couldn't represent it in such a way that demonstrated the magnitude of the discovery? Let's be honest, if I could capture the complexity of who I am in any way that is simple and comprehensible, then the thing I was capturing (me) just wouldn't be that interesting. But I set out to try none-the-less.

In my days at Scient, I saw some graphic designers and organizational experts capture some amazing representations of how departments worked together by creating a single picture/slide/drawing. This seemed like a good idea to me. Rather than try to write out, in prose, who I am, I went for the picture approach based on what I had seen before. I did try to draw the thing I explained in my earlier posting, but my drawing skills were no match for the complexity of the mental image I had created.

So anyway, a few comments on the picture. Each box is meant to represent a capability, skill or competency that I have. The lower boxes are simple skills, and as you move up the picture, you see more complex characteristics that are enabled by the skills below them. I recognize that there are a few gaps (e.g. i'm sure i'm missing more than one thing), but this was a first pass. It not only represents who I am now, but also who I want to be in the future (which, if you think about it, is another way of describing who I am now).

If you ask me who I am, the most simple answer I have come up with is that I am an Experience Designer motivated by the desire to see people enjoying life. I am also an experience maker. By that, I mean the host and entertainer in me that loves not only to design fun experiences for others (and myself), but who also loves to be a part of making them happen.

Thoughts, comments and feedback are welcome and encouraged on this. If you can think of anything I'm missing, please let me know. Or any suggestions for how to represent more of the complexity of how these things work together would be great.