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Effective Humanism

Beyond Effective Altruism and beyond Effective Acceleration, blending both with Awake Internet Protocols, welcome to a simpler path.Effective Humanism

AwakeVC

Awakened Value Co-creation, a family office structured as a private equity collective.Awake Ventures
AwakeVC
Awake Reader

• Launch an Awake Business

TheWokeVC

Awake conversations, not just woke.TheWokeVC

iRealization

All there is, is Consciousness.iRealization Talks
iRealization Pointers
iRealization PodcastNomindfulness
Woketype

Awake Ink

Re-inventing myself through books, work-in-progress:Beyond All Clouds
Interhuma
MMT2
ReaggregationAnother life:
Clojure in Action

Art

Re-inventing myself through art, work-in-progress:Awake Art
Zenefti
Octovism

FairShare

The Rise of Pop Commerce.I Want My Fair Share
FairShare League
Join FairShareMake it Better in America

Shoptype

Community commerce where everyone wins.Shoptype Platform
Shoptype Capital
Shoptype Network
Shoptype ChatCoseller Protocol

Shopherd

Network Retail for the Multiverse.Shopherd

Awake Money

A social wallet for social money.Awake Money

Curatype

Self-Monetizing AI-powered Creator BotsCuratype

Avatars International

AI-powered Agency for AI-powered AvatarsAvatars International

DAOtype

DAO operations and monetization.DAOtype

MarketplaceOS

Web2.5 or Progressive Decentralization for Web2 to Web3 transformation.MarketplaceOS

The Buysider

M&A vehicles for network acquisition strategies.The Buysider

Life

A fairly long series of coincidences.Awakening
iRealization
Guruji
Art
Meditation
Protocols
Prague
PressCoin
Mind
Stories
Burning Man
Types
Speakright
Quintype
Interactive
Angels
Disruption
Abstraction
Staples
Innovation
Intelligence
Arjun
Zolodeck
Adi
Cognifly
Wisdomize
Mixed Fruit Jam
Curry Logic
Runa
Clojure
Higher Order
Google
San Mateo
Yewoh
Grokkr
S-Expressions
Finexion
Epistemologic
SentientWorks
Chicago
LISP
ThoughtWorks
Knowledge
Writing
IBM
Lightfoot Networks
Office Anywhere
inCASE
Magic
PESIT
Internet
Class
Ideas
Networks
Alice
Words
Logo
NPS
Imagination
Games
Computer
Reading
Lego
Bangalore
India

After Awake

Connecting all dots, unleashing parallel entrepreneurship, designing for self-actualization:2023, FairShare: the arrival of Pop Commerce, and the return of monetization to global news and media networks, designed to revive True American Capitalism2022, Shoptype: spun out the Coseller Protocol as a standalone B2B business to focus exclusively on the Platform-as-a-Service model2019, Awake Market: the first commercialization of the Intergraph, solving the attribution problem, and inventing a new type of retail model called Community Commerce powered by the Awake Market Protocol2019, AwakeVC: designed my family office as Awakened Value Co-creation, a protocols-powered private-equity collective, managed by a proprietary Venture Ecosystem Operating System called a64z. Also designed the NAC for AI-powered FinTech-driven blitzscaling to apply programmatic M&A growth strategies2019, The Intergraph: designed the core Open Knowledge Graph and the Meta Web Protocol2019, Opentangle: designed the Fractal Knowledge Model for a new, more conscious knowledge economy, powered by a new Human-centric Network AI

Publications

Learnings over the years:2022, Beyond All Clouds: live-blogging version of a book being written, the Story of Awake, of going from zero to one, and transforming industries2018, Clojure in Action, in Chinese: translated to Chinese for the mainland China launch of the book2015, Clojure in Action, 2nd Edition: updated and revised, along with a new co-author, Francis Avila2011, Clojure in Action: among the earliest books on Clojure, based on the first large-scale production system built in the extremely high-level programming language

Before Awake

In the space between dots, engaged in serial entrepreneurship, heading towards self-realization:2017, PressCoin: a blockchain-powered Web3 multiverse for a new news-media ecosystem2014, Quintype: a B2B software-as-a-service for all things digital media from content management, distribution, engagement, and monetization2013, Staples: VP of Global e-Commerce, post acquisition of Runa, helping grow $30B revenue across online and offline, and B2B and B2C channels2011, Higher Order: Machine-Learning and Artificial Intelligence Lab, incubating new ideas and ventures2008, Runa: Revenue Ultimately Needs Algorithms, right? A large-scale ensemble AI system designed to increase e-commerce conversion rates by optimizing personalized pricing, automated merchandizing, package delivery estimation, cross-selling, upselling, and more.2002,ThoughtWorks: traveled around the US for clients across trading systems, financial and banking systems, and a variety of other large-scale, mission-critical enterprise systems2001, IBM: telecom management systems1999, Philips Semiconductors: building simulators for new VLSI System-on-Chip designs

Patents

Innovations over the years:2021: Enabling influencer-driven commerce that tracks and attributes multiple influencer contributions and distributes available fees2015:Automated targeting of information to an application visitor based on merchant business rules and analytics of benefits gained from automated targeting of information to the application visitor2014: Automated targeting of information to an application user based on retargeting and utilizing email marketing
2014:Automated targeting of information influenced by geo-location to an application user using a mobile device2014: Automated targeting of information influenced by delivery to a user2010: Automated Targeting of Information to a Website Visitor