Stephen P. Williams
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Stephen P. Williams

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Born in Colorado, raised on the Kansas plains, where one morning I leaned back under a cottonwood and felt wind, the sky and the leaves, all connected. That pure sensation guided everything that followed: My first newspaper job, at the Grinnell Herald Register, followed by the Santa Fe Reporter, Austin's Third Coast magazine, Stanford for grad school and a path to Tokyo, where I wrote for Pacific Stars and Stripes. Then, Rodale Press made me a book writer. New York City gave me stories and columns in the New York Times, GQ, Newsweek, and so many others. Moved to an isolated cabin with no electricity in the Andean cloud forest and wrote a novel that no one wanted to publish (one of six, so far). In that forest I decided to only do work that benefited the planet, or people. A simple decision with positive results. Wrote books for a Sudanese refugee, and a nonagenarian philosopher with a funny take on the world. Had the good fortune to partner with energy executive Jim Rogers on a book about energy poverty in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. I saw a subway poster for the Bard MBA in Sustainability, and now I have that MBA, and a passion for distributed systems. I believe these systems have the potential to scale in unexpected and positive ways that could lead us into a startlingly different future, where profit is clean, and trust is a given. Thus my book, Blockchain: The Next Everything, from Scribner. In March, 2020, I hit the road to report and capture images for Everlands, my journey into the heart of America in the time of virus. Now I’m working on a one person performance about how I thought my family might be a cult — and in the end I decided to join it.
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