Micah Eberman
Thirty years, one job, a hundred titles · Wax+Wires
Page briefing
This is the About page for Micah Eberman, producer and director of Wax+Wires. It pairs a portrait photo with a first-person career narrative and two links out. The throughline: thirty years, one job, a hundred titles — creative, designer, coder, creative director, and now the person steering a company through AI. The job was always the same: find the straightest, truest line from a human idea to the technology that can say it loud, the way a DJ digs through a crate for the one record a room needs. Runs from Salzer's Records in Ventura through R/GA, Zoom, IBM, and Atlassian, with music as the constant spine underneath. Wax+Wires is the shop where that same work continues, now as essays instead of records. A Seven Beliefs section follows, pointing to the full Seven Beliefs page. A Contact section follows that, with a LinkedIn profile and an email address. Top actions: one, read the Seven Beliefs page. Two, connect on LinkedIn. Three, email Micah directly.Hey. I'm Micah.
I've spent thirty years doing the same job with a hundred different titles.
Creative, designer, information architect, home-grown coder, creative director, managing director, executive producer, account guy, strategist, futurist, consultant, and now whatever you call the person who moves a whole company forward through the newest frontier of this AI thing. Around the horn and back again. Read like a list, it looks scattered.
It isn't. It was always the same job.
The job is this: find the straightest, truest line from a thing a human needs to say to the technology that can finally say it loud. That's it. That's the whole career. A desire, a need, a job to do, a passion nobody's cracked yet, and then anything and everything at my disposal to draw the line from here to there as clearly and honestly as it can be drawn. The DJ digging through the crate for the one record this room needs, dropping the needle, and turning it up.
I cut my teeth running Salzer's Records in Ventura, one of the great indie shops in the country. (I once locked Glenn Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket out in a rainstorm because the power died before open. Sorry again, Glenn.) That shop is still the most honest thing on my résumé, even after the résumé got loud: R/GA, creative director, VP of brand and artist relations at Zoom building the tools people use to make music and film and podcasts land the way they were meant to, then a hard turn into enterprise design and AI at IBM and Atlassian.
Every one of those rooms was the same bet. Grab whatever's brand new, whatever's coming next, and use it to get a big human idea across in a million small ways. Right now, and this is coming. Always.
Here's how my head works: I see the whole board. I put things together that don't belong together and find the pattern nobody else clocked. That's the AuDHD, and I'll say it plainly, because being matter-of-fact about it is how you pull the sting. What everybody kept calling "pick a lane" was the point the whole time.
And underneath all of it, the whole way down, is music. Not a hobby I mention. The spine. Singer, player, songwriter, pedal junkie, radio and club DJ, lifelong show kid. A player's soul looking for a microphone, some gear, an open room where somebody wants to hear something new and true, and a band to bring it to life. I've been in bands the whole time I've been building brands.
Wax and Wires. The name isn't clever. It's just true.
So this is the shop. Not records this time. Writing. Essays pressed like singles, a Top 5 taped to the sleeve, every one built the way you'd sequence a record: order matters, feel matters, the rough edges are proof somebody was here. Under it there's a real argument about working with these new tools instead of getting flattened by them. The human keeps the pen. But I'm not going to lead with the argument.
I'm going to lead with a story about a bird.
Pull something off the shelf. Stay as long as you want. Turn it up.
The Seven Beliefs
Seven load-bearing beliefs sit under everything I make... the human keeps the pen, the practice matters more than the technology, different angles make better answers, what you build reveals what you believe, receipts on everything, build it for everyone or don't build it, and we should be designing, not debating. The full account, with the research behind each one, lives on the Seven Beliefs page.
Contact
Find me on LinkedIn or send a signal to micah@waxandwires.com.