An album · A framework · A question
Who am I? Who should I become?
An album by Threadborn
For ten years I taught data science as a question about people, not tools — who is the Warrior building dashboards at midnight, the Priest guarding pipelines no one thanks them for, the Healer who knows every number is a name.
For my tenth anniversary I stopped answering that question with slide decks.
I made an album instead — because I believe people find their own truth faster through feeling than through analysis.
Listen · 13 songs
Every song as a 22-page illustrated tale. Press play and the pages turn with the music.
IIUnderstand · 8 roles
Warrior, Mage, Priest, Bard, Healer, Merchant, Quartermaster, Scout — gifts, shadows and the question that shifts each one.
IIITrace · 5 ancestors
The thinking behind it — what was borrowed from de Bono, Jung, Kahneman and others, and what is new.
IVPractise · the method
The Council at work: the archetypes turned into a way of asking one hard question at a time.
Every archetype is one of eight ways to see.
Which one is yours — and which do you never call?
Look into the Mirror →Threadborn is the bardic alias of a data science educator with ten years of teaching the human side of analytics. The name comes from two old ideas: the Slavic wołchw — a forest priest who returns when the old order cracks — and Mokosh, goddess of fate who weaves the thread of a life not yet decided. Every craft is a thread. No thread is the whole cloth.