About Nathan

Nathan Baron, MWL

Where I am: 
I am currently working for the Ontario Public Service with a brutally long job title (Ministry of Transportation> Operations Division> Eastern Region> Fleet Services> Equipment Control Clerk, aka Fleet Geek).  I am an aspiring government communicator, and am actively working on several communication projects for the Ministry. 
I am also very involved in my local sailing club, the Kingston Yacht Club.  I have been a member for over fifteen years and have served on the Board of directors and am currently leading the KYC Communications, which is looking at internal and external communications at the club. 
A little more about me: 
I am personally interested in technological advances in hardware and software and how these things impact people personally as well as the effects these things have on organizations.  As a kid I was diagnosed as ADD (yes I am a reformed Ritalin kid) and from that experience I have become a big advocate for the adoption of new technologies to help engage students with learning disabilities.  
As you may deduce from the title of this blog, I have not graduated from post secondary education.  (I started in Architecture at Fanshawe College, but teaching people to rock climb was way more interesting at the time.)  I don’t have any serious qualms with schools or higher education, I’m just bitter that people think a good liberal arts education can only come from a university. 
On the “man without letters” 
 

I feel I should explain the title of this blog.  
Leonardo Da Vinci used to call himself “omo sanze lettere” or a man without letters.  This is very much in line with the way that I look at things.  I love to explore ideas and make connections between seemingly unrelated subject matter, much the way Da Vinci did.  He is the perfect example of someone who sought out knowledge to be applied to specific problems in order to find solutions.  (And sometimes, just for the hell of it.) 
I am way more impressed by people who seek knowledge because they want to know and act on it, then by someone with umpteen degrees from fine schools who are totally disengaged with the world.  There is way too much going on to not care!

If you are looking for my formal CV, I will be making it available soon.