Welcome to JAG’s Workshop
I’m Jason. Thanks for stopping by.
Welcome.
I’m Jason Anthony Guy, and I’ll be your host.
JAG’s Workshop is a collection of the ephemera I come across as I explore my eclectic mix of interests—from technology to travel, coding to cocktails, photography to politics—contextualized with pithy, sometimes serious, sometimes snarky commentary, plus longer-form articles, analysis, insights, and the sometimes unexpected ways my interests intersect. Written and produced by me, this is part of my “what’s next” following a long career that turned out “pretty good”.
Why JAG’s “Workshop”?
A workshop brings to mind several concepts. For me, it’s two things:
- A space for crafting quality wares. A craftsperson building a table in their garage workshop.
- A place to polish content over time. A playwright shaping a new work in a theatre workshop.
For me, both evoke a spirit of learning and exploration, with twin goals of improving a skill and sharing the results. JAG’s Workshop is an idea to be explored, built, and polished, in public. We’ll learn together what comes of it.
About me (briefly)
I’ve always been curious. As a kid I was always asking “what’s that?”, “how’s that work?” and “why?” Satisfying that curiosity often meant deep dives into new areas, and while I often learned something useful, that was rarely the goal. I simply wanted to know, experience, and understand things: To learn for the sake of learning. Future utility usually wasn’t much of a consideration, although—spoiler alert!—things I learned sometimes came in handy in life.
I’ve loved computers since I first learned to program one at the tender age of 11 or 12, back when that was considered a young age to learn to program computers, and technology became a driving force in my life and career.
Over the years, I also fell in love with writing, acting, photography, public speaking, podcasting, and other creative pursuits. In college, I pursued degrees in both computer science and in theatre, television and film production.
I’ve been especially fascinated by how we leverage technology to fuel our creativity, with the gear and tools that support and sustain creativity as interesting to me as the act of creativity itself.
It turns out I’ve been living at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, long before I’d ever heard the term.
“… technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”
Steve Jobs
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My goal with JAG’s Workshop is to publish content that weaves together all of my many interests. Perhaps it will spark or satisfy your own curiosity. I hope you’ll learn something new. You might even learn something useful.
Things aren’t quite ready yet, I’m still straightening some photos and polishing the silverware... you know how it goes, everything has to be just right before opening the doors for the first time.
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Thanks for joining, and I’ll see you in my workshop.
