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William Stewart
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

This page links to some of the things I've worked on.  Feel free to contact me
at wstewart at williamstewart dot com.

Books – Essays– Software – Drawings – Poetry – Wisdom – Music – Continuum

Books

 * Deeply Practical Project Management – The essential project management best
   practices, available as a book, through onsite training, and as the world's
   leading online applied PM course with more than 60K students and 300K minutes
   watched each month.

 * The Living Internet – The original reference about the Internet, its main
   technologies, and the human history, with input from many of the people that
   created the Internet. The first Web published book, posted live on January 7,
   2000.
   
   An interview I did covering the history of the Internet from Vannevar Bush's
   visionary Memex through the Sputnik satellite to the World Wide Web can be
   found here.

 * Best Of War & Peace – A selection of the very best 10% of one of the best
   books of all time.

Essays & Papers

 * Team Human – The opportunity to solve almost all our problems at once.

 * Fun Standard – A standard for organizational fun, republished widely such as
   in The TQM Magazine and Taiwan Daily News, with translations in five
   languages, and a free poster download.

 * Public Party Financing – A paper describing a simple and fair method, which
   MP Mark Assad told me he copied to all his fellow Liberal Members of
   Parliament, and kindly mentioned in the House of Commons when very similar
   legislation passed in 2003 (Hansard, 37th Parl, 2nd session, #115,
   2003-06-10, T1205).

 * Proportional Representation – A simple and fair method, including an open
   source software application, prepared for the Canadian Royal Commission on
   Electoral Reform of 1989.

 * Perspectives – Essays on Affirmative Action, Capitalism and Socialism, The UN
   Charter, Abbie Hoffman, Chaos Theory, Individual and Collective Rights,
   Changing Constitutions, and Giving Women the Vote.

Software

 * EnterpriseLibre – I founded Cirrus Computing to develop an all open source
   enterprise in a cloud, integrated from all of the very best open source
   software, available anywhere over the Internet over virtual desktops.  And it
   was recursive, with any one enterprise able to produce more enterprises.  I
   ran the company from 2007 to 2017.

 * FreeOpenSourceSoftware.org – Public Wiki with collections of good open source
   software, info on history, organizations, etc.  No longer have time to
   maintain, and cannot open it to the public since the spammers would quickly
   overrun it, so not sure what I will do with it. 

 * Code – Open source software for: Construction of geodesic domes in multiple
   dimensions, Proportional representation for election results, Fuzzy logic
   linear programming, AVL trees, and Website navigation.

Drawings

 * Rotating Cubes – Experiments with three dimensions flipping around in two.

Poetry

 * Forever

 * The Long Game

 * Run

 * Very

 * Mott Is Hot

Wisdom

 * Philosophy – Graphical explanations of:
   
         -   Why Are We Are Similar?
         -   Why No-one Is Best
         -   Your Intelligence In Perspective
         -   Anyone Know Why We Are Here?
         -   Design Builtin To Our Universe
         -   Is There Any Trend?
         -   Four To Start
         -   Expanding Consciousness

Music

 * Best Songs Of All Time / Spotify URI - The best songs on Spotify,
   self-propelled, with an essential idea at the core, unfolding in a natural,
   almost automatic fashion, speaking to something in us we need to hear,
   containing an inner life, and can be listened to again and again, more than
   400 songs mixing country, folk, pop, rap, and rock.

 * Best Songs Of All Time (Dance) / Spotify URI - The best dance songs on
   Spotify.

 * Best Songs Of All Time (Strong Beat) / Spotify URI - The best songs on
   Spotify with a strong beat.

Continuum

 * Genealogy – Genealogical research on the two sides of my family, and of my
   wife's family.  Thanks to genetic genealogy results, it turns out that on my
   mother's side I am descended from Robert III, King of Scots, and on my
   father's side in a straight male line from Alexander Stewart, Fourth High
   Steward of Scotland.  Hence the coat of arms at the top of the page.

 * William Stewart II – My father, who had the most fun a human being could have
   flying some of the original jet fighter planes, risking his life to help
   defend the free world during the cold war when it really mattered, and did
   his duty as a man as best he could.

 * William Albert Mott – My great grandfather, who helped build New Brunswick as
   mayor of Cambellton and member of the Legislature, with excerpts from the
   Proceedings of the N.B. Legislature from 1893-1902.