Matthew Schutte

About

You can read the resume stuff below, but here is a bit about me, the person: I am drawn to complex challenges that include: - surfing 50 foot waves at Mavericks - rethinking the role of privacy in a society - architecting a more useful structure for the internet and - guiding enterprise organizations through changes to their structure and processes that will allow them to adapt and thrive in an age of rapid transition. I tend to focus on projects that satisfy two goals: 1) They feel like they will have a significant impact on the world 2) The process of taking them on will be a whole lot of fun There is a balance, of course. I'm not sure how the big wave stuff makes too much of an impact, but it is one of the few situations in which I am able to completely lose myself -- and I believe that such ecstatic moments are an important key to a fulfilling life. Plus, facing your own mortality on a somewhat regular basis makes all the heady stuff seem that much less consequential... and thus easy to take on. At core, I'm an (applied) philosopher that thinks about and studies how living systems function and tries to apply any lessons I glean on my own or learn from others to figuring out how

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