EXOSPHERE ACADEMY
S T A B I L I T Y
One of the safest, most politically stable and economically vibrant countries in the world.
The nature of work has changed, and so has its relationship with you as an individual. Adaptability is the new source of value, originating from creativity, and reinforced by your expertise and skills. This is what the CREATIVE ECONOMY is about.
Either by self encouragement or out of necessity, the CREATIVE ECONOMY pushes you to learn new skills and be able to reinvent yourself. You need to break the rules of an outdated model that does not prepare you for the current world context and prevents you from reaching your real potential. Learning is a lifelong process and a fundamental pillar of your journey as an entrepreneur.
Start building a life at the frontlines of the Creative Economy.
EXOSPHERE’S 8-WEEK RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM
At the Cutting Edge of Learning Experiences
The burning desire to press forward in the face of all opposition, limitless curiosity for learning, the ability to adapt, and the will to shape the world for the better— these are the essential traits of the entrepreneur.
In our age of hype this core has been replaced with venture capital rounds, social media vanity, and a lot more talking about the journey than actually living it.
– Skinner Layne
Founder of Exosphere
CO-LEARNING. CO-LIVING.
The Most Immersive, Hands-On, Learning Experience Anywhere
Exosphere Academy is an 8-week program custom designed to better prepare you for the creative economy by gaining expertise in a specific domain, and fostering your curiosity and adaptability.
The program is divided into different Skill Streams that are connected via the core curricula for interdisciplinary exchange while encouraging innovation and idea cross-pollination.
CORE CURRICULUM
SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
BUSINESS SKILLS
PERSONAL GROWTH
SKILL STREAMS
DESIGN & UX/UI
CODING
BIOHACKING
PHILOSOPHY
ETHEREUM
CHOOSE YOUR FELLOW
Global Experts & Your Future Allies
J. BRYCE HIDYSMITH
Design & UX/UI Stream
“Designs for unusual problems,” that’s how Bryce presents his work. A design prodigy, this San Franciscan has more than 11 years of experience working on games, iconography, spatial design, and the interplay between forgeries and the genuine article.
Naturally innovative and adventurous, each of the projects he works on (which range from website or app building, to themed trucks for secret festivals we cannot tell you about) aims to create not only aesthetic beauty, but explore the fusion of design with experience and emotions.
GABRIEL LICINA
BioHacking Stream
One of those guys that is molding the world we live in through technology, Gabriel is a biohacker who gained worldwide fame after developing night-vision eye drops. After studying in Washington he decided that the academia life of research was not exciting enough and moved to California where he built his own lab. Now he is back in Seattle working on low cost life extension technology and making science education more accessible.
A firm believer that the things happening now have the potential to have long term positive effects on what it means to be human and how we live on this planet he is not watching, but pushing this change forward.
MICAH REDDING
Coding Stream
Senior Developer, CTO, and Teacher, Micah has more than 16 years in the coding world. Expert in Ruby, HTML/HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, amongst other languages he is also a futurist, public speaker, and collaborator for The Huffington Post and Motherboard Vice.
Micah has multiple bachelor degrees in Computer Information Science, Programming, Software Design, and Web technology. He helps normal human beings understand how to work confidently with software developers and software development teams. In addition he is a member of MENSA and Executive Director of the Christian Transhumanist Association.
Check his website here.
SKINNER LAYNE
Philosophy Stream
Sharp with his tongue and dangerous with his thoughts, Skinner will turn the world you know upside down with his ideas and understanding of life. He has been a startup founder, political speechwriter & strategist, consultant and board member to publicly traded companies, and financing consultant for multinational infrastructure projects.
Skinner has been living in Latin America since 2008 and is the founder of Exosphere. He believes philosophy is much more than theoretical thought and his practical approach will allow you to understand the world in a new way and encourage you to shape it for the better.
PHILIP SAUNDERS
Ethereum Stream
Starting with Bitcoin back in 2013, Philip has developed an interest in the revolutionary implications of decentralized consensus mechanisms both in money and in law. This led him to found Pax, an Ethereum-powered civic network and peer to peer legal system. He is a web developer with experience using the MEAN stack (Mongo, Express, Angular and NodeJS), as well as an Ethereum practitioner and Solidity coder.
A writer, programmer and entrepreneur from Ireland, he wrote two novels while still in secondary school and studied English, Italian and Applied Mathematics. He is also the founder of the Edinburgh Liberty Forum.
His three heroes are Dante Alighieri, Marcus Aurelius, and Elon Musk.
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SKILL RECOGNITION
Earn Badges to Show the World Your Progress
Collaboration and an increase in technological access have disrupted education and learning in the current networked world. This brings new ways of creative working and generated a series of skills and jobs that did not exist 10 years ago. Still, getting recognition for self-learned or “informally learned” skills in traditional environments is a difficult task.
The OpenBadges.org initiative is part of the disruption wave bringing education and learning closer to the current Creative Economy and the new learning paradigm. Open Badges is an online representation of skills you’ve earned and allows you to verify them and other achievements through credible organizations.
With this new online standard to verify learning, Exosphere will recognize you for the things you learn, enable you to display your verified badges across the web, and share them with employers, organizations, and schools.
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SAMPLE BADGE
Get recognized by your new skills and learnings!
IN ACTION
The Exosphere Experience
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Should I Come to Exosphere?
HELL YES!
I’m curious
I want my work to have meaning
I want to be challenged
I want to explore the world
I need more skills and experience
I want to surround myself with the extraordinary
I’d rather stay bored at home.
I want to live an easy life
I want the same job for the next 20 years
I’m satisfied with traditional life scripts
I don’t like leaving my sofa
I know everything already
I like the ordinary and dull