Ari Heljakka is a theorist and practitioner of Exponential Growth mindset – in radical technologies, businesses, and human individuals.
His main theoretical work is the book Model Zero, a toolkit for reconstructing yourself as someone who can
thrive in an environment that is changing
at an exponential pace.
His main practical work so far is within Dream Broker, a software start-up multiply recognized and awarded
as one
of
the fastest-growing technology
companies in Finland (being #1 in 2012 and
#3 in
2013). Heljakka was a co-founder and currently works as the company's Chief Strategy Officer.
Heljakka holds M.Sc. in Physics and BA in Theoretical Philosophy (University of Helsinki). He is currently located on Earth.
As a philosopher, he is a pragmatist focused on the expansion of human capacities at all levels. This includes human enhancement technologies and
radical self-development. Model Zero is currently his main work, compressing his core philosophy in a
minimalistic formal system.
A top-grade programmer, he published his first commercial software at the age of 16, and has spent 20 years mostly writing and producing software.
As an Artificial Intelligence researcher, he has worked on several open-source AI projects and co-authored the book Probabilistic Logic Networks, as
well as a number of academic AI papers.