stevenberlinjohnson.com: Outside.in looking for a CTO

It's been a very good six months at outside.in. We've launched Radar, our GeoToolkit platform, and just yesterday rolled out our API. And we're starting to see our traffic numbers really take off at an amazing rate: our core site audience has grown 400% this year; more than a thousand bloggers and media sites are now using our tools as part of the outside.in network (and it's only about two months old!) And we've got some great new tools and services in the short-term pipeline...

Of course, that kind of rapid growth creates a new set of challenges, most of them revolving around scaling. To date, our amazing co-founder and CTO Cory Forsyth has done a tremendous job creating the whole outside.in ecosystem, from the core site to the network tools to the admin system. But we know that there are big performance and scaling issues involved in building an architecture that can support massive traffic, and play a critical role in the evolving geo-web across tens of thousands of network partners. Putting all that together is a job in itself.

So we're looking for a CTO who has extensive experience building web applications with that level of usage who will work alongside Cory (he'll become our VP of Engineering.) It's a great gig, with lots of fun challenges and about as enjoyable an office environment as you could imagine. Our CEO Mark Josephson has a blog post here that talks about the job in more detail, but if you're interested drop a line to jobs@outside.in with your resume or LinkedIn profile.

The Basics

I'm a father of three boys, husband of one wife, and author of seven books, and co-founder of three web sites. We spend most of the year in Marin County, California though I'm on the road a lot giving talks. (You can see the full story here.) Personal correspondence should go to sbeej at earthlink dot net. Media requests should go to Matthew.Venzon at us.penguingroup dot com. If you're interested in having me speak at an event, drop a line to Wesley Neff at the Leigh Bureau (WesN at Leighbureau dot com.)

My Books

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
An exploration of environments that lead to breakthrough innovation, in science, technology, business, and the arts. I conceived it as the closing book in a trilogy on innovative thinking, after Ghost Map and Invention. But in a way, it completes an investigation that runs through all the books. Sold more copies in hardcover than anything else I've written.
The Invention of Air
The story of the British radical chemist Joseph Priestley, who ended up having a Zelig-like role in the American Revolution. My version of a founding fathers book, and a reminder that most of the Enlightenment was driven by open source ideals.
The Ghost Map
The latest: the story of a terrifying outbreak of cholera in 1854 London 1854 that ended up changing the world. An idea book wrapped around a page-turner. I like to think of it as a sequel to Emergence if Emergence had been a disease thriller. You can see a trailer for the book here.
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
The title says it all. This one sparked a slightly insane international conversation about the state of pop culture -- and particularly games. There were more than a few dissenters, but the response was more positive than I had expected. And it got me on The Daily Show, which made it all worthwhile.
Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
My first best-seller, and the only book I've written in which I appear as a recurring character, subjecting myself to a battery of humiliating brain scans. The last chapter on Freud and the neuroscientific model of the mind is one of my personal favorites.
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
The story of bottom-up intelligence, from slime mold to Slashdot. Probably the most critically well-received all my books, and the one that has influenced the most eclectic mix of fields: political campaigns, web business models, urban planning, the war on terror.
Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
My first. The book I wrote instead of finishing my dissertation. Still in print almost a decade later, and still relevant, I think. But I haven't read it in a while, so who knows what's in there!

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