Welcome to CarlSettles.com. Over the past 5 years, I have dedicated myself to using media to develop educational and economic infrastructure for the community. That process has manifested in me founding E4 Youth, an organization that inspires youth to reach their creative potential.

I started documenting this journey via my blog a little over 4  years ago using the free service Posterous. Blogging was a revelation for me because up until then I had been a Flash developer for 15 years and a straight up web snob. I used to think blogging was for those who didn’t have the chops for “real media making”. That was then…. Now, with over 300 posts featuring the people I meet, stuff I peruse on the web, my personal journey to get in shape and the occasional indignant rant about the state of education in America, I thought it was time to step things up a notch. Leveraging the WordPress platform, I’ve curated over two years of content thus far making it more accessible. Videos, Milestones, Podcasts of my talks and interviews. It’s all here… well, accept for my musical past. But hey, my musical comeback isn’t set to start until 2020. So, there’s plenty of time for that stuff too.