Welcome to gbelo.org, the personal website of G.Reed (greedgbelo.org).

Connecting technology with the human element
Hi. I like to help people cultivate their talents, communicate with one another, find meaning, and get connected and more in tune with our world. One of the ways in which I do so is to help people and organizations frame a problem or issue that they face, then help them solve it by guide their decision-making processes. I try to illuminate how people think about their situations, then help them explore potential consequences of their alternative courses of action. On the job, this often involves creating a computer model of a situation, then either analyzing the results or packaging the models into tools that people can use to positively influence their organizations. My line of work also involves quite a bit of teaching and mentoring. Many of the tools methods I harness on the job tend to intersect with and apply to 'real life'--and vice versa. So, I take a holistic view of my own life and don't tend to separate 'work' and 'personal' much at all; carrying bits and pieces of one realm into the other has made both areas much stronger.

Our collective knowledge and wisdom should be distilled, shared, and used in meaningful ways. I research, study, and work in fields such as psychology, economics, cognition, philosophy, and other related disciplines. These areas of study ave much to teach us about the way that we think--and also, perhaps, how we ought to think. I'm a huge fan of semiotics as well--that is, how people interpret signs, signals, words, and communication in general. These studies have had a significant impact on my own life, and I seek to apply them toward the betterment of others' as well. Understanding the way we think helps us understand essentially everything else.

But tools such as logic, language, quantification, modeling, and systematization, as powerful as they are, have their limits--they cannot fully capture the universal essence. They are constructs that we've developed as means to communicate our ideas, experiences, and insights, but they are limited in ways that we don't often recognize. Often, at least a small part of an idea is lost when it is penned, drawn, or spoken. We cannot hope to capture and convey absolutely everything we think, feel, and experience through these tools alone.

Our connection with the 'absolute' has to be experienced firsthand in order to fully understand it--I do not discount the importance of our more visceral personal truths. Still, we may as well try to frame whatever phenomena we can, recognize the limitations of our frameworks, and allowing them to carry us as far as they can.

I continually seek out a holistic comprehension of our world. My hope is that this, in turn, helps me to better help others come to understand it as well--and then enable us all to act with more complete information, more confidence, and more positive impact on the world around us.