Daniel Steinbock, Phd
Anthropologist



We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence. But that intelligence is dormant and its communications are broken, inarticulate and faint until it possesses the local community as its medium.
— John Dewey

About

Daniel Steinbock is an American anthropologist interested in embodied cognition, optical illusions of consciousness, and the creative genius of community. By day he is a Senior Researcher at Google. By night he is a musician and songwriter. In the liminal hours, he writes.

Previously: Lecturer in Design at Stanford University's d.school, design professor at Keio University, Tokyo, and doctoral researcher in cognitive anthropology and learning sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Doings

Curriculum Vitæ
My past and present lives
Music
Contemplative folk
True Story
Storytelling card game & podcast
TagCrowd
Word cloud generator

Writings

4 Steps to Lucid Dreaming
the untapped 1/3 of life
Awkward Silence
theory and explanation of an embarrassment
Perfect Is Dead
design lessons from the uncarved block

Contact

LinkedIn
@dsteinbock
Instagram
@danielsteinbock