I have been an independent business owner most of my professional life, founding companies to execute my vision — originally software, now focused on pure information-sharing. 
  
The Transparency Project: (https://transparency.is) 
 
My long-term ideal is to promote transparency: the understanding of origins and intent - commercially and socially - by everyone. 
 
“Being Transparent” is a book that will lay out a roadmap for integrating transparency into daily life, to improve business and personal success. 

ideaPush.org is a not-for-profit internet community and NYC salon group, that aims to improve lives by undoing bad "common knowledge" and prejudices caused by private, corporate, and government interests. 

I am self-trained in software engineering, which I have taught in college. Earlier in life I have been a magazine editor and writer, photographer, print shop manager, amateur auto racer, competitive pool player, and held a ladder ranking at StarCraft for over a year. I hold a BA in Electronic Music and Classical Composition from Bennington College, and an Executive MBA from the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Affiliations include YEO (1999-2002), a young entrepreneurs peer group; Carnegie Hall, where I am a ‘notable’ patron; The Morgan Library, where I am a 'young associate', The Electronic Music Foundation, where I am a founding patron, Sugarbush Soaring, where I fly sailplanes; The Aspen Institute, its group of young thinkers, the Socrates Society; and I am a 10x attendee of the invitation-only TED Conferences, which bring together the great innovators of technology, entertainment, and design.