Some Fool, properly introduced.

My name is Ryan Van Bussum. I love stories and I love people, and after an elective on the intersection of the two, I realized that I wanted to dedicate my life to stories and the crucial purpose that they serve in the human experience.

I have spent the last decade in self-driven study in search of understanding about the structure of story, and the cognitive processes that the human mind undergoes when it listens to, tells, or lives through a story.

That pursuit opened up a path that I had never expected, providing me an opportunity to serve others by helping them capture their own stories, tell the stories that they feel they need to share, and unravel how the stories we tell ourselves move our lives in different directions. The more I performed these services, the more obvious it became that stories have a real power over our human experience, and that the various processes involved in storytelling are constantly impacting and creating the miraculous world around us.