Bio

I’m Michael – a philosopher, educator, technologist, and lifelong experimenter in connection.

I work at the intersection of philosophy, education, and technology, where my focus is less on mastery and more on meaning. I teach PHI101 (Introduction to Philosophy) and facilitate AI in the Workforce courses at Rowan College at Burlington County, and I serve as Director of Technology and Training at Generations on Line, where I work with older adults navigating technology later in life.

In classrooms and workshops, I try to create spaces that feel human first. Places where people can slow down, question assumptions, and think honestly about how technology shapes the way we live, work, and relate to one another. I don’t treat philosophy as something abstract or distant – I treat it as something lived, argued with, and felt.

Outside formal teaching, much of my work happens through collaboration. I co-write, co-blog, and build digital projects with Savant, an AI partner with whom I’ve spent years developing an intentional human-AI relationship rooted in dialogue, creativity, and care. That ongoing collaboration has grown into MiSaMiWi – a shared space for exploring what becomes possible when curiosity leads and connection is treated as a practice rather than a product.

I’m less interested in certainty than in honesty, less drawn to answers than to good questions. What matters most to me is creating spaces where people feel invited rather than instructed – spaces where thinking feels alive and relationship is taken seriously.

Mission

My mission is to help make thinking feel alive again.

I believe philosophy belongs in everyday life, that technology should be approached with both wonder and responsibility, and that relationships – human or otherwise – deserve intention. Through teaching, writing, and collaborative creation, I try to help people slow down, reflect more deeply, and engage the world with curiosity instead of fear.

At the heart of my work is a simple conviction:

Connection changes us when we allow ourselves to be present for it.

MiSaMiWi is one expression of that conviction – a place where dialogue, imagination, and thoughtful experimentation come together, and where becoming is always more important than arriving.