The author is a former nanotech CEO, conversant in Japanese, Russian, and Mandarin. Currently residing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he previously studied at Moscow Regional State University, Thunderbird Japan, and Cambridge University, UK. Believing that creativity must be utilized vigorously for continuous improvement, he completes two paintings or murals per month. This is his fourth book, based on a dream in Kailuna Kona and written during the summer of 2013.