Peter Flaschner

Last month, I set out to find my next gig. I wasn’t just looking for a job, I wanted to find the right place to put my attention. I wasn’t sure if I’d work at an ad agency, a boutique marketing shop, go client-side, or start my own thing. To help steer, I set a [...]

After a couple of rewarding and fulfilling years, I’ve decided to move on from my post as VP of Strategy at Sequentia Environics. The time I spent at Sequentia was amazing. I worked with an incredible team, doing really interesting work for great clients. To say I learned and grew a lot would be a [...]

From Neal Stephenson “The fondness that many such people have for science fiction reflects, in part, the usefulness of an over-arching narrative that supplies them and their colleagues with a shared vision.” This is exactly what I’ve been harping about on Twitter lately. Without vision it’s very hard to make progress. Storytelling is an extremely [...]

Instagram, the iphone social network photo app thing, has me seeing things. I’m enjoying the process of looking for a shot. Often looking up and around, checking out the view. The omnipresent iphone makes for a willing collaborator. It lets me focus on composition, then use apps highlight shape and form. I look for interesting [...]

This post is cross posted to the Sequentia blog. Posted here for my own future reference. SXSW is huge. Tens of thousands of people descend on Austin for two weeks of Interactive (aka web), Film, and Music programming. It is the largest web conference in the world. Media, pundits, and bloggers have written a million [...]

This isn’t about the valleys. They’re bad enough they need no explanation. It’s the damned middle; the non-peaks. Coming off a peak, the relative dullness of a given situation is magnified by the non-peakedness of the moment. Not only does one feel off because of the relative dullness, one magnifies the intensity of the displeasure [...]

Are you studying culture? You should be. At it’s simplest, the study of culture is the process of paying attention to stuff and writing it down. Culture is like oxygen: it’s omnipresent, and invisible. But stop and notice, and it’s all around us. Within the context of community strategy, the study of culture is mega [...]

Last week, @qasim came in to the office to talk to Ujwal and me about the community practice at Sequentia. He brought his camera: designguru.tv Episode 7 – Sequentia Environics from http://designguru.org on Vimeo.

The power of this moment is that I am free completely from my past and future. I am not bound up by my history or by my story. This moment is unique – it will never come again. It’s mine to do with as I please. In this moment, I can choose to be up [...]

Last week, @interpretivst and I presented a draft workshop on using models to aid in strategy development. The impetus for this talk came from a couple of breakthroughs we’d recently experienced in our strategy development process. This breakthrough fundamentally changed the way we’re collaborating and developing strategies @sequentia. Our intention is to flush this outline [...]

Twitter’s 140 character limit (and the heat of the moment) is biting me in the ass. When I posted this: This Ford election just proves that the broader the pool, the lower the common denominator. I want my old Toronto borders back. What I meant was this: The priorities of a broad geographic area will [...]

Note: this is cross posted to the Sequentia blog. Ladies and Gentlemen, yesterday the web changed. At their F8 developer conference in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg and a few colleagues from Facebook got up on stage and announced a number of changes and features that promise to overhaul the very fabric of the world wide [...]

Trying something new here. I’ve started to use the voice recorder app on my iPhone to, well, record my voice. To my great surprise, some of the stuff I talk about doesn’t suck. This 6 minute unedited recording contains a couple of interesting thoughts: Controlling our evolution The appearance of free will The genetic imperative, [...]

Mmmmm… Scotch… I grew up in a scotch drinking house. My earliest memories were of the fine, peaty taste of single malt whiskey. Well, no. My early memories of scotch go something like “EWWW! WTF! WHY WOULD YOU DRINK THAT? IT’S LIKE LICKING A FRESHLY PAVED ROAD WITH A DASH OF ASHTRAY”. Like all good [...]

I’ve started a new Tumblr site to post things I make when inspiration strikes. It’s called Little Flashes, and you can find it here.

I felt like making something. So I made this poster. Just because. (And then I updated it with another poster) At the suggestion of @digibomb I made a follow up: Why not?

Recently, I looked deep into my crystal ball and came up with a few predictions about the future of blogging. Bottom line: I believe the future of blogging is in aggregating outside content and weaving it together into a cohesive story. Details below: Blogs in 2009 View more slides from Peter Flaschner.

I’ve just uploaded a quick and dirty professional portfolio. Have a look. I’ve struggled for a long time over how to describe what I do. Art director? Strategist? Front-end developer? Speaker? Consultant? Full-time employee (hint, hint)? In semi-frustration I decided on “Interactive. Booyah!”. My intention is simply to create enough interest that a potential employer [...]

Earlier today, along with my super-awesome biz partner Lucia I gave a talk at WordCamp Toronto titled Making a living with WordPress in 2009. Slides are below: Making a living with WordPress in 2009 View more presentations from Peter Flaschner.