About Intentionally
My name is Sean Johnson, and I’m a marketing/web/philosophy geek. For the past three years I’ve worked for GoalQuest, the premier higher education marketing company in the country. Most of that time has been spent as their Creative Director, where I’ve been responsible for the aesthetic design for over 350 projects seen by over 2 million students. I’ve also had the joy of personally designing the interfaces for a number of online applications, including a social networking site called UPeers currently in use at over 50 universities.
I was born and raised in Colorado Springs and graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder with a degree in marketing. After a year running a small web company in Colorado with two other guys and burning it into the ground, I moved to Seattle for six months where I spent my time trying to keep my business alive while waiting tables at a seafood restaurant and living in a grossly unequitable situation with two of my closest friends from college.
In August of 2004 I met a girl in Las Vegas at my buddy’s bachelor party. She was an economist in New York City, was infinitely more intelligent than I was, and for some insane reason decided I was worth her time. Three months later I moved to New York, and a year after that I asked her to marry me. She said yes, which was nice. We were married in September of 2007.
Last October I moved to Rogers Park in Chicago, and spent the next 6 months locked inside my house to prevent getting a) shot and b) frostbite.
About this site
Intentionally started in 2003 in an ironic attempt to rid myself of narcissism through the vehicle of blogging. I wrote about my character flaws, my vices, and the myriad ways in which I failed to live up to my faith and my expectations of myself. The site has since morphed into a collection of thoughts on business, marketing, design, the Internet, Christianity and personal philosophy.
This site runs on Wordpress, and is coded by hand using EditPlus on a series of consistently underwhelming PCs. I know…but it’s fun to be the only guy in the room without a Mac. Graphics have been created with Photoshop, and pictures that I’ve taken have been with a Leica C-Lux 1.
