Let me ask questions about your ideas and share mine, or talk about the work at hand, please.  Better yet, let's get right to work.  You see, I don't talk easily about myself.  That's probably the biggest reason why I created this site - so that my work could speak for itself.  (Classic INTJ)

That said, it helps to know that I grew up in two marginalized subcultures at the same time: hippie communes of the 70s and a community of orthodox protestants.  Both groups intentionally create their experience based on their roles, values, responsibilities, and meditations. I see the world through that scrutinizing, intentional lens.

At age 11, I left Ohio for New York City, and subsequently lived in San Francisco, France, Boston, DC, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Minnesota. I am now in the Bay Area with my joie-de-vivre Bavarian husband, founder of the virtual reality clustering technology company ModViz.  His father is a well-known political satire "Kabarettist" of Germany's left.

As far as work is concerned, I prefer to work in small teams of passionate, unconventional types but often complete my work alone.  Most challenges are spiritual more than intellectual; Pema Chodron guides me from a place of gratitude and compassion. 

"Functionlust" (or the German "funktionslust") refers to the experience of "flow", the joy felt when something works to engage you ever more deeply in meaningful, creative action.  It titles my site because I see interaction design as having a responsibility to the end-user in creating a state of mind that reveals their greatest intelligence and creativity.  Functionlust is, at heart, the agenda behind the method - to spark a passion for being productive. Here's Wikipedia's definition of Flow, according to Csikszentmihalyi.