Sean McDonald

@seanmcdonald
Building a calendar that cares about you.
Austin

Software Engineering

Product Design

Open Source

UX Design

Visual Design

Founder

Life Long Learner

Book Worm

Conference Speaker

Entrepreneur

University Graduate

Coding

Photographer

Musician

Artist

I want you to have a great life, so I'm building a calendar that cares about you at Sundial.

I've built a couple companies. One built farming robots, another mapped and analyzed social networks for big banks. (seed / venture / project finance.)

I love art, music, and creative cooking. When I was younger, I was a portrait artist in LA. Now I'm a tech dad in Austin.

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I'm open to

co-founding a company,

guest lecturing,

new client inquiries,

and talking to journalists.

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Resume

Oct 2021 - Present

Founder, Sundial

Portfolio

Attended South By South Lawn -- the SXSW at the White House Tweets...

Side projects

I helped launch The Bob Moog Foundation, where I got to do many cool things. Among them was helping to unseal Moog's archives, and work with museums around the world to showcase those masterpieces....

Things I’ve built

Launched & Funded a sustainable animal feed company using ag robots and insects. Read about it in Modern Farmer.

Built an R&D facility full of agricultural robots. Read more in Sacramento Business Journal

Speaking engagements

Selected to pitch at SXSW Eco. Watch pitch on YouTube.

Videos

Built a software + service fintech company. Sweet Spot was a network-focused dossier builder for business development leaders in global-scale banks. In 2008, it was early "fintech" and eventually m...

Articles and blogs

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Launched a global art project. The COLORBOX Project used fabric art to tell stories about the human experience. The project also debuted a novel stacking method to reveal the color ethnography embe...

The Clockchain Protocol -- the L1 for time. This is a story about a data structure. Our ancestors inscribed "carpe diem" on their sundials. We will decentralize time. Both help us live great lives....

A “calendar” built on awe-struck gratitude. Life is too short for TradCal mindset. Read the whole piece...

TradCal Mindset, The Ugly Liar Problem & The Way Out Time is our greatest gift, yet our interfaces for time are Ugly Liars. If you don't believe me, open your calendar app and ask yourself to simul...