Justin Harnish is the author of Meaning in the Multiverse and of the book Dance to Spawn a Galaxy, and has collaborated on numerous patents and papers in semiconductor engineering and data science. He studied Chemical Engineering and Philosophy at Montana State University, where his undergraduate work study writing for the Wallace Stegner Endowed Chair website began a lifelong love for the stories of place and the evolution of people through their lives.
Eighteen years in the School of Life, Work, and Family educated Justin in the diverse pursuits an examined life requires. Coupling the science of his engineering career with the philosophy of strategic design and management, he found a path in 2012 to bring the two together as a technology program manager in semiconductor manufacturing. Revitalizing the classic Natural Philosopher — an awe-inspired, creative hypothesizer and futurist on one hand, a pragmatic and methodical skeptic on the other — is his life's work.
That commitment to thought, spirituality, and our shared story shows up in his founding of the Jung Society Think Tank — a "book club without a book," where amateur thinkers gather to discuss one another's extracurricular research, on subjects ranging from the neuroscience of memory to the sacred life of bees. Using the life-optimizing strategies set out in Meaning in the Multiverse, Justin helps people detail their passions and align their lives and professions to their greater purpose.
He serves his community as the Co-Founder of Women of the World, the non-profit refugee service organization he started with his wife, Samira Harnish — honored with the Americas Nansen Award from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for excellence in refugee service. Women of the World offers custom, critical service and capacity-building to displaced women resettling in Salt Lake City, where Justin lives and works.
Justin loves his blended family — his wife Samira, her four children, five granddaughters, and one grandson.
More of Justin's work lives at justinaharnish.com, in the research initiative ConsciousGPT, and in his Substack, Ordinary Illuminated.