{"json":{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"image","attrs":{"src":"https://server.onli.bio/files/onliweb/beeea1902f3722c8488a580f8386634c_DanEllis.lg.webp","alt":null,"title":null,"caption":"","thumbnail":{"x":0,"y":0,"width":100,"height":42.1875,"cropPosition":{"x":0,"y":97.81456685066223},"zoom":1}}},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Current location: "},{"type":"text","text":"London! Let me know when you’re in town and we’ll go for a pint."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Year I entered Quest: "},{"type":"text","text":"2016 (January) - Squamish was sunny and cold and beautiful. Almost 10 years ago now, it was a different town then, you could stuff your face on Sushi for 10 bucks, there was only 2-3 restaurants you’d actually want to eat at, and it was always easy to find parking on Cleveland."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Favourite class:"},{"type":"text","text":" This is a tough question because I really loved the classes I took. I think I have to pick Afrofuturism with Tobias van Veen. It was such an unusual topic to study, but so mind bending, magical and entertaining. Tobias delivered every class like it was his last, he cared so much about the content, and you could tell he loved teaching. Part of the reason I have to pick this class is because it introduced me to the idea of speculative fiction which was the genre of my keystone. Without discovering speculative fiction I think it would have been hard for me to get into my grad school — it allowed me to do something interesting in the field of design without much technical design experience. I was accepted onto a program at Central Saint Martins at the University of Arts London studying under the top academic in speculative design."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"I’m not really interested in speculative fiction anymore, but I’m grateful for all the time I spent enjoying it."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Question I am currently pursuing: "},{"type":"text","text":"I’ve always got a few on the go, but my career ones are:"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"\"How can we decarbonise the material world?” + “How can Josh Visser and I sell a million copies of Cambio: Into the Wild (our card game)”. After studying Industrial Design I did two things 1) bizarrely I got a job as a “Speculative Designer” which I is a job title even the most optimistic in the field didn’t think they would ever see on a job board 2) I won a grant to launch my start-up Decarbonite, its a sustainable building material I developed during my time at grad school, and later patented. We’re still following Decarbonite down some interesting rabbit holes...but I won’t say more than that. "}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"I quit my job as a Speculative Designer and now I work for a climate change think tank called Systemiq, I work in the “Materials” division doing research, writing reports and advising companies and governments (for the past year mostly on how to eliminate plastic waste). But the thing I am most excited about right now is a card game I launched with Josh Visser called Cambio: Into the Wild. It’s available in 20-30 stores in Canada, US and UK. We’re always stoked to see Questies enjoying the game, and if you know any retailers, let us know!"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Most generous thing someone has done for me:"},{"type":"text","text":" Everything my family has done for me, no doubt."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Most generous thing I have done for someone:"},{"type":"text","text":" Omg hard question! I am the only person in my house of 5 that cleans out the shower drain, it’s super gross and I never ask anyone else to do it. It’s difficult, but when I need motivation I just think, what would Mother Teresa do..."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Favourite summertime activity:"},{"type":"text","text":" At the moment PICKLEBALL, we are addicted over here. It’s not as trendy as Padel, but tbh I’m fine with that, the courts are never busy and they are £4 for the hour. Of course I miss hanging out at river spots in BC. We go down to Cornwall a lot in the UK to surf, and I did that a lot as a kid too. Cornwall has a lot of “Pastys” which are basically big empanadas, perfect post-surf."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Thing that surprised me lately: "},{"type":"text","text":"I was in Brazil earlier this year, we visited an old flour mill in the jungle, and there was a family there selling preserves, hot sauce and alcohol. One of the men said, \"do you want a guide to take you on a hike to the water fall”, and I said, “yeah that sounds good”. He pointed at a dog who was waiting at the trail head, and said “he’ll take you”."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"None of us could believe it, but the dog took us on the trail, he stopped at all the forks in the trail to make sure we didn't go the wrong way, and he took us back, it was crazy!"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Fireside discussion topic that I’d like to have:"},{"type":"text","text":" Hard question, lots of topics to choose from. I think most people aren’t really taking AI seriously enough. I know that must sound odd because the whole world is talking about AI right now, but mostly in a superficial way about the present or the next year or two. I think we have important questions to ask ourselves about the next 3-5+ years. If we were at Quest, the fireside chat would either be about how we should learn and be evaluated in class now we have AI OR what does AI mean for our careers/meaning of life? I’m not sure there are perfect answers to these questions, and the answers can be quite personal, making them good fireside chat topics."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Best dinner as of recent: "},{"type":"text","text":"I was in Italy recently with my Brazilian family. We had a BBQ and it was amazing. Contrary to popular belief, eating out in Italy is actually pretty hit and miss, and there's a lot of disappointing food around. But the produce from your average Italian supermarket is unbelievable, you eat a tomato and you realise you’ve never tasted tomato before. If you can cook, I think eating at home in Italy is often the best!"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Best caf meal: "},{"type":"text","text":"One time we arrived on campus early for res council orientation, and it was when the new caf company had just been hired. This lady, (I can't remember her name), made a beef roast with all the trimmings, horseradish sauce, roasted potatoes etc. Honestly it was amazing by any standards. It was quite funny actually for a meal that good to be in the caf. Unpopular opinion, I actually think the caf was often pretty good."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Emotion that I value most right now: "},{"type":"text","text":"Fun/playfulness/joy. I’m 30 now, life got too serious too quickly, I just wanna play video games, skateboard, and party!"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Three food items that I always keep on hand:"},{"type":"text","text":" MANGO CHUTNEY / HARISSA / CHINESE CHILLI OIL. BUT there is one thing missing which even millions of dollars cannot buy which is Varsha’s spruce syrup. Someone please bring it for me!!"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"bold"}],"text":"Thing that sparked my curiosity last:"},{"type":"text","text":" I’ve been listening to a lot of physics podcasts recently, and there are still some pretty big mysteries out there! Why are there no aliens? How is the expansion of the universe accelerating? Black holes? WTF?! I need a quest class!"}]},{"type":"paragraph"},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Love you all and miss you!"}]}]},"len":6204,"title":"Daniel Ellis - Keeping up with the Kermodes","slug":"keeping-up-with-the-kermodes-daniel-ellis-2016","lastSave":1775012080727,"shere":false,"showPublishedDate":true,"showShareOptions":true,"showCollaborators":true,"text":"\n\nCurrent location: London! Let me know when you’re in town and we’ll go for a pint.\n\nYear I entered Quest: 2016 (January) - Squamish was sunny and cold and beautiful. Almost 10 years ago now, it was a different town then, you could stuff your face on Sushi for 10 bucks, there was only 2-3 restaurants you’d actually want to eat at, and it was always easy to find parking on Cleveland.\n\nFavourite class: This is a tough question because I really loved the classes I took. I think I have to pick Afrofuturism with Tobias van Veen. It was such an unusual topic to study, but so mind bending, magical and entertaining. Tobias delivered every class like it was his last, he cared so much about the content, and you could tell he loved teaching. Part of the reason I have to pick this class is because it introduced me to the idea of speculative fiction which was the genre of my keystone. Without discovering speculative fiction I think it would have been hard for me to get into my grad school — it allowed me to do something interesting in the field of design without much technical design experience. I was accepted onto a program at Central Saint Martins at the University of Arts London studying under the top academic in speculative design.\n\nI’m not really interested in speculative fiction anymore, but I’m grateful for all the time I spent enjoying it.\n\nQuestion I am currently pursuing: I’ve always got a few on the go, but my career ones are:\n\n\"How can we decarbonise the material world?” + “How can Josh Visser and I sell a million copies of Cambio: Into the Wild (our card game)”. After studying Industrial Design I did two things 1) bizarrely I got a job as a “Speculative Designer” which I is a job title even the most optimistic in the field didn’t think they would ever see on a job board 2) I won a grant to launch my start-up Decarbonite, its a sustainable building material I developed during my time at grad school, and later patented. We’re still following Decarbonite down some interesting rabbit holes...but I won’t say more than that. \n\nI quit my job as a Speculative Designer and now I work for a climate change think tank called Systemiq, I work in the “Materials” division doing research, writing reports and advising companies and governments (for the past year mostly on how to eliminate plastic waste). But the thing I am most excited about right now is a card game I launched with Josh Visser called Cambio: Into the Wild. It’s available in 20-30 stores in Canada, US and UK. We’re always stoked to see Questies enjoying the game, and if you know any retailers, let us know!\n\nMost generous thing someone has done for me: Everything my family has done for me, no doubt.\n\nMost generous thing I have done for someone: Omg hard question! I am the only person in my house of 5 that cleans out the shower drain, it’s super gross and I never ask anyone else to do it. It’s difficult, but when I need motivation I just think, what would Mother Teresa do...\n\nFavourite summertime activity: At the moment PICKLEBALL, we are addicted over here. It’s not as trendy as Padel, but tbh I’m fine with that, the courts are never busy and they are £4 for the hour. Of course I miss hanging out at river spots in BC. We go down to Cornwall a lot in the UK to surf, and I did that a lot as a kid too. Cornwall has a lot of “Pastys” which are basically big empanadas, perfect post-surf.\n\nThing that surprised me lately: I was in Brazil earlier this year, we visited an old flour mill in the jungle, and there was a family there selling preserves, hot sauce and alcohol. One of the men said, \"do you want a guide to take you on a hike to the water fall”, and I said, “yeah that sounds good”. He pointed at a dog who was waiting at the trail head, and said “he’ll take you”.\n\nNone of us could believe it, but the dog took us on the trail, he stopped at all the forks in the trail to make sure we didn't go the wrong way, and he took us back, it was crazy!\n\nFireside discussion topic that I’d like to have: Hard question, lots of topics to choose from. I think most people aren’t really taking AI seriously enough. I know that must sound odd because the whole world is talking about AI right now, but mostly in a superficial way about the present or the next year or two. I think we have important questions to ask ourselves about the next 3-5+ years. If we were at Quest, the fireside chat would either be about how we should learn and be evaluated in class now we have AI OR what does AI mean for our careers/meaning of life? I’m not sure there are perfect answers to these questions, and the answers can be quite personal, making them good fireside chat topics.\n\nBest dinner as of recent: I was in Italy recently with my Brazilian family. We had a BBQ and it was amazing. Contrary to popular belief, eating out in Italy is actually pretty hit and miss, and there's a lot of disappointing food around. But the produce from your average Italian supermarket is unbelievable, you eat a tomato and you realise you’ve never tasted tomato before. If you can cook, I think eating at home in Italy is often the best!\n\nBest caf meal: One time we arrived on campus early for res council orientation, and it was when the new caf company had just been hired. This lady, (I can't remember her name), made a beef roast with all the trimmings, horseradish sauce, roasted potatoes etc. Honestly it was amazing by any standards. It was quite funny actually for a meal that good to be in the caf. Unpopular opinion, I actually think the caf was often pretty good.\n\nEmotion that I value most right now: Fun/playfulness/joy. I’m 30 now, life got too serious too quickly, I just wanna play video games, skateboard, and party!\n\nThree food items that I always keep on hand: MANGO CHUTNEY / HARISSA / CHINESE CHILLI OIL. BUT there is one thing missing which even millions of dollars cannot buy which is Varsha’s spruce syrup. Someone please bring it for me!!\n\nThing that sparked my curiosity last: I’ve been listening to a lot of physics podcasts recently, and there are still some pretty big mysteries out there! Why are there no aliens? How is the expansion of the universe accelerating? Black holes? WTF?! I need a quest class!\n\n\n\nLove you all and miss you!","html":"<img src=\"https://server.onli.bio/files/onliweb/beeea1902f3722c8488a580f8386634c_DanEllis.lg.webp\" data-caption=\"\" data-thumbnail=\"{"x":0,"y":0,"width":100,"height":42.1875,"cropPosition":{"x":0,"y":97.81456685066223},"zoom":1}\"><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Current location: </strong>London! Let me know when you’re in town and we’ll go for a pint.</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Year I entered Quest: </strong>2016 (January) - Squamish was sunny and cold and beautiful. Almost 10 years ago now, it was a different town then, you could stuff your face on Sushi for 10 bucks, there was only 2-3 restaurants you’d actually want to eat at, and it was always easy to find parking on Cleveland.</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Favourite class:</strong> This is a tough question because I really loved the classes I took. I think I have to pick Afrofuturism with Tobias van Veen. It was such an unusual topic to study, but so mind bending, magical and entertaining. Tobias delivered every class like it was his last, he cared so much about the content, and you could tell he loved teaching. Part of the reason I have to pick this class is because it introduced me to the idea of speculative fiction which was the genre of my keystone. Without discovering speculative fiction I think it would have been hard for me to get into my grad school — it allowed me to do something interesting in the field of design without much technical design experience. I was accepted onto a program at Central Saint Martins at the University of Arts London studying under the top academic in speculative design.</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\">I’m not really interested in speculative fiction anymore, but I’m grateful for all the time I spent enjoying it.</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Question I am currently pursuing: </strong>I’ve always got a few on the go, but my career ones are:</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\">\"How can we decarbonise the material world?” + “How can Josh Visser and I sell a million copies of Cambio: Into the Wild (our card game)”. After studying Industrial Design I did two things 1) bizarrely I got a job as a “Speculative Designer” which I is a job title even the most optimistic in the field didn’t think they would ever see on a job board 2) I won a grant to launch my start-up Decarbonite, its a sustainable building material I developed during my time at grad school, and later patented. We’re still following Decarbonite down some interesting rabbit holes...but I won’t say more than that. </p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\">I quit my job as a Speculative Designer and now I work for a climate change think tank called Systemiq, I work in the “Materials” division doing research, writing reports and advising companies and governments (for the past year mostly on how to eliminate plastic waste). But the thing I am most excited about right now is a card game I launched with Josh Visser called Cambio: Into the Wild. It’s available in 20-30 stores in Canada, US and UK. We’re always stoked to see Questies enjoying the game, and if you know any retailers, let us know!</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Most generous thing someone has done for me:</strong> Everything my family has done for me, no doubt.</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Most generous thing I have done for someone:</strong> Omg hard question! I am the only person in my house of 5 that cleans out the shower drain, it’s super gross and I never ask anyone else to do it. It’s difficult, but when I need motivation I just think, what would Mother Teresa do...</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Favourite summertime activity:</strong> At the moment PICKLEBALL, we are addicted over here. It’s not as trendy as Padel, but tbh I’m fine with that, the courts are never busy and they are £4 for the hour. Of course I miss hanging out at river spots in BC. We go down to Cornwall a lot in the UK to surf, and I did that a lot as a kid too. Cornwall has a lot of “Pastys” which are basically big empanadas, perfect post-surf.</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Thing that surprised me lately: </strong>I was in Brazil earlier this year, we visited an old flour mill in the jungle, and there was a family there selling preserves, hot sauce and alcohol. One of the men said, \"do you want a guide to take you on a hike to the water fall”, and I said, “yeah that sounds good”. He pointed at a dog who was waiting at the trail head, and said “he’ll take you”.</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\">None of us could believe it, but the dog took us on the trail, he stopped at all the forks in the trail to make sure we didn't go the wrong way, and he took us back, it was crazy!</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Fireside discussion topic that I’d like to have:</strong> Hard question, lots of topics to choose from. I think most people aren’t really taking AI seriously enough. I know that must sound odd because the whole world is talking about AI right now, but mostly in a superficial way about the present or the next year or two. I think we have important questions to ask ourselves about the next 3-5+ years. If we were at Quest, the fireside chat would either be about how we should learn and be evaluated in class now we have AI OR what does AI mean for our careers/meaning of life? I’m not sure there are perfect answers to these questions, and the answers can be quite personal, making them good fireside chat topics.</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Best dinner as of recent: </strong>I was in Italy recently with my Brazilian family. We had a BBQ and it was amazing. Contrary to popular belief, eating out in Italy is actually pretty hit and miss, and there's a lot of disappointing food around. But the produce from your average Italian supermarket is unbelievable, you eat a tomato and you realise you’ve never tasted tomato before. If you can cook, I think eating at home in Italy is often the best!</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Best caf meal: </strong>One time we arrived on campus early for res council orientation, and it was when the new caf company had just been hired. This lady, (I can't remember her name), made a beef roast with all the trimmings, horseradish sauce, roasted potatoes etc. Honestly it was amazing by any standards. It was quite funny actually for a meal that good to be in the caf. Unpopular opinion, I actually think the caf was often pretty good.</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Emotion that I value most right now: </strong>Fun/playfulness/joy. I’m 30 now, life got too serious too quickly, I just wanna play video games, skateboard, and party!</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Three food items that I always keep on hand:</strong> MANGO CHUTNEY / HARISSA / CHINESE CHILLI OIL. BUT there is one thing missing which even millions of dollars cannot buy which is Varsha’s spruce syrup. Someone please bring it for me!!</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"><strong>Thing that sparked my curiosity last:</strong> I’ve been listening to a lot of physics podcasts recently, and there are still some pretty big mysteries out there! Why are there no aliens? How is the expansion of the universe accelerating? Black holes? WTF?! I need a quest class!</p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\"></p><p class=\"text-sm font-normal leading-normal mt-1 mb-2\">Love you all and miss you!</p>","style":"preview","access":"public"}