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You've found the world wide website of Christian Alden Jacobs.
Currently, I am a founding partner at Operations Operations PBC, a public benefit research and innovation lab that exists to bring about a partnership-oriented approach to strategy and operations. More on the Ops Ops PBC family of projects soon.
I am also a volunteer and interim project lead at Ecosystem Action Research (EAR), an initiative to help make public interest internet technology legible, usable, and practical for everyday people. EAR is a project of the Raft Foundation.
By day, I’m a transdisciplinary design researcher and systems designer, known to facilitate action research in service of mission-oriented innovation.
By night, I research and write about strategy theory in the context of circular causal and complex adaptive systems, including the role of the observer within and beyond the observed system.
Causal thickets and schisms are all around us. I believe—with humility, kindness, and mutual learning—we may as well partner together where it may be time to make careful change.
If you're up for a chat, I'd probably enjoy getting to know you and learning what you're up to.
You are also welcome to say hi via my AT address. Or whatever we’re calling it these days.
