Summary

Fun Sep 2020 Wrote up all my time doing covid work over the first 34 of 2020 Sep 2020 Started General Galactic Corporation May 2020 Found out I was a Jamstack Pioneer based on our work at Obama for America Apr 2020 Launched zooooom.us - a screensaver for our anxious times Mar 2020 Started doing COVID-19 work full-time Feb 2020 Started watching covid Dec 2019 Reclaimed modest.com and started using harpermodest.com for my email again Oct 2019 Joined the RAND Pardee Schools Tech Narrative Lab advisory group May 2019 Opened the company.lol office to figure out what the next thing will be Apr 2019 Became a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC Mar 2019 Named as a 2019 delegate for the US-Japan Leadership Program Jun 2018 Started using Linux full time again May 2018 Became a MIT Medialab Directors fellow Apr 2018 Started third vision quest walkabout Apr 2018 Left PayPal to pursue my dreams Mar 2018 Turned 40 Dec 2017 Started doing yoga Apr 2017 Slightly regretted spending all my bitcoin on things Mar 2017 Used up all my bitcoin buying Leica cameras on overstock Oct 2016 Joined IllinoisTech Computer Science advisory board Sep 2016 Joined Royal United Service Institute advisory board Aug 2016 Installed a permanent rock monument in my parents front yard that is inscribed, Boyhood home of Harper Dylan Reed.Apr 2013 Breakout of the Year Webbys Mar 2013 Spoke at TED 2013 technically TED-U Feb 2013 Did a TED University talk at TED which predicted that the 2016 election would be hacked and manipulated Jan 2013 Started doing a lot of speaking internationally Dec 2012 Started a company called Modest, Inc with dylanr Dec 2012 Started second vision quest walkabout Nov 2012 Helped Barack Obama win his reelection campaign Nov 2012 40 under 40 Crains Apr 2012 Stopped going out as much Apr 2011 Started as the Chief Technology Officer at Obama for America Apr 2011 Bought a kindle for 45 bitcoin Apr 2011 Started using OSX for work Oct 2010 Discovered Minecraft Sep 2010 Data Innovation Award MCIC Aug 2010 Started living at the apartment in Wicker Park Oct 2009 Became the Customer in Residence for Rackspace Hosting Oct 2009 Started first vision quest walkabout Sep 2009 Left Threadless to pursue my dreams Jul 2009 Built CityPayments.org with Daniel X Oneil Oct 2008 Built Unofficial Transit API for Chicago Transit Authority Sep 2008 Received a photo credit in Metallicas Death Magnetic album.

Title

Harper Reed is Awesome | Harper Reed ★ Probably one of the coolest guys ever

Description

Harper Reed — technologist, entrepreneur, hacker. CEO of 2389.ai, former CTO of Obama for America. Probably one of the coolest guys ever.

Keywords

first, time, living, using, chicago, going, house, greeley, harper, reed, brother, work, college, blog, camera, working, vision

Categories

Finance

NS Lookup

A 104.26.4.230, A 104.26.5.230, A 172.67.69.171

Dates

Created 2026-08-11

Updated 2026-08-11

Summarized 2026-08-11