the timboucher experience

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
— Robert Heinlein

A skills inventory is a great way to make yourself publicly available to others as an expert resource in the things you’re good at and interested in. It’s an open format for individuals and small communities to create a skills bank to facilitate trade inside or alongside the monetary system. For me, the skills inventory has become a reference point to track my progress towards personal and professional goals.

I am very good at and know a lot about:

1. Communication, creative non-fiction writing, web/internet writing, language, poetry, jargon
2. Research, analysis, synthesis, creative problem-solving, coming up with novel approaches and new ideas, acting as a fresh outsider viewpoint, understanding complex systems
3. Technical theatre, scenic carpentry, scenic painting, run crew/stagehand
4. Blogging, WordPress, monetization techniques, SEO, marketing, online community building
5. Teaching, lecturing, technical training, public speaking, curriculum design.
6. Animal care, especially canine
7. Computers (PC), web & internet technologies (design, coding, etc)
8. Plant care, gardening, landscaping, organic and conventional techniques
9. Juggling, three and four-ball, and three pin
10. Song-writing, singing, playing guitar, street performance.

I am actively interested in and have strong background knowledge in:

1. Cognitive enhancement techniques, perception & proprioception, ritual & habit, self-mastery
2. Community development, public spaces & resources, social entrepeneurship, green/sustainable thinking and activism, natural systems
3. Boxing, chess, strategy, game theory
4. Advanced software applications, interface and experience design, next-wave and alternative computing paradigms
5. Religion & spirituality, symbolism, philosophy, mysticism, esoteric systems and schools of thought, psychology
6. Alternative, complementary, electronic and other currencies
7. Mass media, pop culture, subcultures & alternative viewpoints, entertainment industry, advertising/marketing, sociology, semiotics
8. History of itinerant performers across all cultures and periods

I am interested in professional paid opportunities in:

1. Writing, research, communications, teaching, performance
2. Technology & creative consulting
3. Animal & plant care, ecology & biology
4. Theatrical and entertainment media work

I would like to learn more about and gain first-hand experience in

1. Traditional carpentry techniques, finish carpentry, wooden ship-building, stonework, blacksmithing, welding, metal fabrication, lights, electrics, sound, instrument repair
2. Resilient & intentional communities, ethnobotany, bionomics, permaculture & traditional non-industrial farming techniques
3. Brewing, sailing, archery, fencing
4. Working with livestock, horses, cattle, goats, sheep, fowl, etc
5. Hunting and tracking, dressing & butchering meat
6. Historical master-apprentice system, guilds, unions

[Originally published: Sept. 23, 2008]
[Revised: On-going]
[Previous 2007 version of Skills Inventory]

• Skills Inventory (Oct. 2009)
• 2012 Is People!
• Self-Contracts
• Perfectly Descriptive Business Names
• Quotes / Tag-Line Page