A studio for ideas, indices, and interfaces
Citizen of Nowhere is where I think out loud about metros, movement, measurement, and the people who belong to all places and none. Some of that thinking becomes writing. Some of it becomes software.
770 teams. 33 leagues. One scale.
770 teams across 33 leagues in eleven sports, ranked by what people actually look at. Monthly pageviews in every language, blended with search trends and rescaled by a league revenue anchor, so a WNBA team and a Premier League club sit on one scale. Refreshes monthly, with a valued-versus-attention column.
Open the index Method70,000+ parameters. 4,300+ metros. 247 countries and territories.
A data-driven measure of what makes a city matter globally, assembled parameter by parameter across sixteen dimensions.
Explore the rankingsIdentity. Consent. Audience. Activation. Measurement.
A fragmented fan-data stack resolved into one governed, activated, measurable system, on its own backend with synthetic fans: identity, consent, audience, activation, and lift measurement. Built rather than described.
Open the StudioThe Practice
Resolved fan identity, governed and monetizable, from someone who ran it at the NFL and MLB. Independent of every vendor.
Mapping the Atlantic divide between American sport and European football, and the two new instruments I built to measure it
The NFL starts tonight.
Who Actually Runs the World, and Where That Power Sits
The phrase was meant as an insult. It was delivered from a podium, in a political speech, to describe people who considered themselves citizens of the world. The implication was that a person who belongs to everywhere belongs to nowhere, and therefore, to nothing.
I took the label and kept it, because I think the opposite is true. Someone who has lived in more than one country, who has worked across more than one language, who has built things for people who do not look like them, is not stateless in any diminished sense. They are simply loyal to the city and the idea rather than the flag.
This site is where I publish the work that follows from that orientation. Indices that take metros seriously as the organising unit of modern life. Essays on movement, measurement, and belonging. Software that makes it easier to see the world as it actually is, rather than as national summaries want you to see it.