About

I have been thinking about many of the ideas on this site since the 1990s. However it was last autumn when I decided to spend a lot more time on developing the ideas and making them practical — and when I realised that using an evolutionary lens opened up many avenues.

Since 2016, my main focus has been on developing a different approach to creating effective learning content and I have used these ideas in my work as an information and learning designer. My writing about knowledge structures and learning strategies can be found at www.francismiller.com.

My roles and activities prior to that included:

• business consulting for small businesses and non-profit organisations for many years
• being one of the four founders of the Merlin Ecology Fund (now the Jupiter Ecology Fund) in 1988. Merlin was the UK’s first environmental unit trust and, as the Jupiter Ecology Fund, is one of the world’s longest-established green investment funds
• management consultancy work for the Falkland Islands Government in 1984
• articles for various news and business publications, including a jointly written article for the Guardian on how novelists have incorporated an awareness of environmental problems into their work and an article for the New Statesman on the political implications of the concept of emotional intelligence.

I am a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and live in Hertfordshire, England.

Francis Miller