What I've done

I spent a career helping institutions learn how people develop, how they see things, learn things and make choices.

Dozens of companies, including the ones below and many others have hired me to help them make products, entertainment and communications for kids, teens and parents.

             

                 

                         

      etc., etc.

 

And now . . .

Instead of helping others produce and market their own products and services, I am now creating new things as an independent writer, inventor and entrepreneur.

• Writing about the minds I have spent a lifetime discovering.
  See, for example, The Mind Behind which puts forth a general theory of how people really make choices in everyday life. You can find my other writings and speeches here.
  
  

• Inventing products and technologies to solve problems I have grappled with in my professional and personal life,
  
  For example:
  
  

  • SkillShaper^(tm), implementing a radically new learning technology for shaping physical skills for sports, work, fitness and therapy. Contact me directly if you would like to know more:
    
    

  • Others, not ready for public disclosure. But stay tuned!
    

• Starting businesses to capitalize on those inventions

  
  

  • Sandbox Studio Partners - an umbrella organization for  invention-based startups. We operates somewhat like a production studio where each project gets formed as a separate entity -  with its own financing, production and marketing team.
    The central players in the sandbox are Lang Rust, Frances Rust, Dean Harris, Ben Vear and Simeon Schnapper

                     

Dean Harris  Frances Rust   Ben Vear

  

    Simeon Schnapper

 

Dr. Langbourne Rust

    

Lang Rust went to Harvard and got a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, with studies in measurement, learning and cognitive development.

After several post-doc appointments with Childrens Television Workshop, he started his own research and consulting business, with a focus on new-methods development and providing guidance to the creative process.

 

The Mind Behind

A seminal paper on how people really make choices in everyday life

     

 

SkillShaper

SkillShaper devices make learning hard skills easier.