03 / About
A multidisciplinary way of thinking.
I’m Marcus Diamor. I study problems across business, technology. creativity, and society, and build from what I find.
Profile / Marcus Diamor
The Practice
Marcus Diamor / A connected practice
Between possibility and practice.
Ideas become more useful when they survive contact with reality.
My interests move across project management, technology, entrepreneurship, sociology, and creative work. I don't treat those as separate identities. There are different ways of understanding the same questions: Why does something work? Who does it work for? And what would make it better?
The curiosity becomes practice. I research, question assumptions, connect ideas across disciplines, and turn what survives into something tangible, a system, venture, strategy, experiment, or piece of work.
This site documents that process: what I'm building, what I'm studying, what worked, what didn't, and how my thinking changes along the way.
Marcus
03 / Perspective
Curiosity starts the work.
Building is how I find out.
I.
Ask before answering.
Start with the problem beneath the request. What is actually happening? Who does it affect? What assumptions are being made? Better questions narrow the distance between complexity and clarity.
II.
Cross the boundary.
Useful answers rarely respect disciplines. Business explains value. Technology expands capability. Sociology reveals behavior and context. Creativity makes new possibilities visible. Use whatever the problem requires.
III.
Build to understand.
Give the idea form. Make the prototype, system, strategy, experiment, or argument. Put it in contact with reality. What survives becomes knowledge. What fails becomes evidence.
Some questions can only be answered by making something.
Personal / Creative influences
The creativity around me.
Some of the people closest to me make things too.
My fiancée, Simone Cummings, works in communications and production. Being close to someone with a creative practice different from my own has made me more attentive to how differently people can approach the same fundamental act: taking something imagined and giving it form.
Our disciplines aren't the same, and that's the point. Her perspective reminds me that good work isn't produced by one way of thinking.
Creativity becomes more interesting when you're surrounded by people who see things differently. Their perspectives become another way of questioning your own.
Marcus Diamor & Simone Cummings