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Noah Feehan and the Mind of the Makera

Noah Feehan and the Mind of the Maker

Too often we find ourselves featuring projects on these pages without giving much thought behind the people who made them. Nevertheless, behind the LED panels, github pages, and PCBs that make the hardware magic happen, there’s a person. And not just one person but an entire culture of people who let their conscious hours bleed late into the night over software bugs and bad solder joints. Noah Feehan is one of these veterans, and at this year’s Hackaday SuperConference, he reached out to this culture. Noah comes armed not with projects but with design tips and an infectious enthusiasm that …read more #Cons, #Fablab, #HackadaySuperConference, #NoahFeehan, #Weft

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My time in the finance industry / other agenda, 2005

Noah Feehan / AKA is an artist, programmer, and researcher currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Feehan received his Master's Degree at MIT’s Media Lab where he experimented with hyperinstruments, robotics, and locative media. He also worked at the Cambridge Innovation Center for several years. Prior to his time in Cambridge, Feehan worked in the Human Resources department of a prominent hedge fund in Midtown Manhattan. He was deemed as an “Other Agenda” hire, which he explains is “a term the fund coined to acknowledge the agreement that I would work diligently from 9 to 5, and then I use the rest of my time to pursue my Other Agenda, with no career-oriented pressure to put in extra hours at work or generally be interested in finance.” In the competitive and ambitious environment of high finance, Feehan found that working only within an eight hour day was not exactly possible. In turn, he devised a private “in-kind” system of exchange where would reward himself time for art projects after working overtime. “Making Dollars” features the photographic evidence of these artistic favors, including self-portraits made before a particularly demanding “Take Your Child To Work Day”, and reenactments of classic management texts, such as Harvard Negotiation Project’s Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most--which reminds the reader that “conflict is a growth industry”.