About

Hi, I’m John Miedema. I am active on Gander, Canada’s social platform. I am also active on Substack and professionally on LinkedIn. I use GitHub for code. You can email me.

I am a lifelong meditation practitioner, shaped by vipassana and neuroscience. For years, I facilitated a meditation community at my workplace and now offer it online to the public. If you would like to join, please visit the Meditation Community page and subscribe to the Meditation Community newsletter. I continue to refine my fresh language interpretation and will publish it.

My career as a Solutions Architect spans more than three decades at the Bank of Canada, the IBM Watson Group, and the Internet Archive. My current research explores how neuroscience technologies can augment human cognition and decision-making. Electroencephalography and related techniques provide objective insight into attention, cognitive workload, engagement, and recognition, helping inform the design of user experiences, user interfaces, workflows, user research, and products. Wherever decisions are made, neurotechnology has the potential to improve the process.

I enjoy collaborating to develop conceptual architectures that answer difficult questions. I have the coding skills for proof-of-concept and the decades of experience for production design. With a Master of Library and Information Science, I bring a scholarly approach, evaluating claims through rigorous research. I have published scholarly work and hold a patent related to social search technology. I accelerate every stage of the process through the thoughtful application of AI. Follow my developments on LinkedIn.

I write contemplative essays and books. My interests include animism and panpsychism, consciousness and phenomenology, and the sentience of animals, rivers, and rocks. You can follow my writing here or subscribe to my newsletter. I publish independently through Snail Books.

Thanks,

John