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About Sri

Hi! I'm a non-binary Taiwanese-American living in Southern New Hampshire near Boston. I go by the name DSri (also spelled Sri and pronounced like sreeee) though David is still my legal name. I really appreciate it when you use my preferred they/their/them pronouns...thanks!

Personal Goals

I am a human-centered systems thinker that prioritizes emotional experience over solution satisficing. It's unusual to have both the technical and the emotional, which puts me between both disciplines. What's interesting to me are techniques drawn from media and art as it affects cognition, then reverse-engineering them into technical solutions.

More simply stated, I just like it when people feel good about what they're doing, feel productive and fulfilled, and like the people they're working with. These are the metrics that I work from to achieve my design objectives.

Because emotional experience is also intensely social, I'm also constantly thinking about the cultural and environmental factors that lead to great communities.

Domain Interests

I write about productivity and personal development as I try out different entrepreneurial paths. Along the way I've made visual thinking tools like The Emergent Task Planner and The Compact Calendar, which you can find on my productivity tools page.

I'm broadly interested in thinking tools, creative synthesis, conceptual mapping, and multi-sensory approaches to user interface/experience design. However, I'm really driven to understand the emotional barriers one faces when creating in the face of uncertainty so I can devise sneaky ways to get around them.

My background is in visual design and computer programming. I enjoy talking about concept modeling, media techniques in realtime computing systems, and the process of creating anything novel and new.

Connecting with Me

For a complete list of social media locations, see my social links page

For daily real-time communication, you can find me at the DS|CAFE Coworking Discord. Otherwise, you can see what I'm up to on these networks:

I also have accounts here, but they are not very active:

Contextual References

You can also get an overview of my old work through the links below; since 2013 I have mostly been working with learning science researchers in a systems programming role. If you're interested in chatting about anything, try messaging me via one of the above platforms! My Mastodon account is where I'm now posting my most current thoughts on social media.

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