Evolved Technologist -

Evolved Technologist seeks to gather and publish wisdom from technology professionals about how to succeed when putting technology to work. The creators of Evolved Technologist are on a journey to reinvent the methods used in journalism, analysis firms, and other media to serve the needs of technologists. There is no doubt this journey will take us to many unexpected places. Our starting point is a simple agenda and the following set of principles.

Our Starting Agenda: Promoting Balance

Evolved Technologist seeks to promote a balance in the application of technology between optimizing existing systems and acquiring new capabilities. We all have layers of technology surrounding us. Most technology journalism and analysis focuses exclusively on adding to the pile. Evolved Technologist seeks to examine not only the new possibilities but also how to make the most of what is already in place.

Harvesting Wisdom Through Questions

Our most fundamental guiding principle is that wisdom flows from experience. To us wisdom is the knowledge gained when someone who is highly motivated struggles to achieve a goal, and after much experimentation, learns what works and what does not. Wisdom is contextual and rarely generally applicable. To learn from the experience of others, you must understand their context and your own, and then select the lessons that apply. Our approach to harvesting wisdom is simple and has been developed over five years experience at Evolved Media during which we wrote 15 books and thousands of pages of other content based on more than 1,000 interviews. To harvest wisdom we must talk to as many people as possible. We then harvest their knowledge in the form of questions and analysis of the possible answers. We want to year from you so please Tell us a Question as often as you like. We focus on gathering questions and the analysis of answers because we cannot complete the journey of applying the wisdom to the lives of our readers. We can present what other people learned from their experience and the context in which that wisdom was gained. You can then determine what might work in your environment.

Identity and Perspective

To get the most of out of technology, we all need a sense of our technological identity: a sense of who we are, what we need to do, and how technology will help us get there. A technology identity exists at many levels, the personal or individual identity (Will an iPhone really help?), the team or work group level (Should we use an internal or public wiki?), the departmental or divisional level (MS Exchange or Google Apps), and the corporate or ecosystem level (Should we standardize or integrate?). Understanding who we are and what we want to do makes technology fun again. The appropriate identity changes based on what we are trying to do. In our writing and analysis, Evolved Technologist will provide a clear perspective that attempts to precisely describe the context in which technology is being applied. See the article on our analytical perspective for more on this topic.

Our Motto

The Evolved Technologist motto is: "Living the examined life in technology" and we hope that everyone involved in the site aspires to that goal as well. Our model for this exploration is Socrates and his gang of friends back in the town square in Athens. They didn't believe in teaching wisdom. They didn't believe that was possible and we don't either. They believed in asking each other questions and arguing about the answers. So please, tell us a question so we can get this process started.