# Jerry Michalski

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**Jerry Michalski** is an American technology consultant. He is the former managing editor of *Release 1.0*, a technology newsletter. He is the founder of Sociate.com and ReX (Relationship Economy eXpedition).

## Education

Jerry Michalski graduated from the [University of California, Irvine](/source/University_of_California,_Irvine) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.[1] He received a master in business administration from the [Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania](/source/Wharton_School_of_the_University_of_Pennsylvania).[1]

## Career

Michalski served as the managing editor of *Release 1.0*, the newsletter published,[2] and originally written and edited solely by [Esther Dyson](/source/Esther_Dyson).[3]

Michalski is the founder of Sociate.com. He is also the founder of ReX (Relationship Economy eXpedition).[4] He has given lectures about the "economy of relationships" in front of think tanks like the [Institute for the Future](/source/Institute_for_the_Future), where he argued that the thriving economies of the future will rest upon relationships.[4]

Michalski is considered to be one of the Digerati.[5] Michalski is one of the earliest users of the [TheBrain](/source/TheBrain)[6] mind mapping and personal knowledge base software, having amassed more than half a million nodes [7] in 26 years of use.

## Boards

Michalski is a board member of [Zev Shapiro](/source/Zev_Shapiro)'s organization [TurnUp](/source/TurnUp)

## References

1. ["Jerry Michalski"](http://sociate.com/bio.html). *Sociate.com*. Retrieved September 12, 2016.[dead link]

1. Lewis, Peter H. (June 19, 1994). ["Getting Down to Business on the Net"](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/19/business/getting-down-to-business-on-the-net.html?pagewanted=all). *The New York Times*. Retrieved September 12, 2016. In some cases, they won't have much choice about participating in some fashion," said Jerry Michalski, managing editor of Release 1.0, a computer industry newsletter in New York.

1. Lih, Andrew (2009). *[The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia](/source/The_Wikipedia_Revolution:_How_a_Bunch_of_Nobodies_Created_the_World's_Greatest_Encyclopedia)*. London: Aurum. p. xi. ISBN 9781845134730. [OCLC 280430641](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/280430641) Jerry was a prolific fellow, having served as the first editor of Esther Dyson's legendary Release 1.0 newsletter, and was holding an exclusive freeform technology "unconference."

1. Doyle, C. Andrew (2015). [*A Generous Community: Being the Church in a New Missionary Age*](https://books.google.com/books?id=KoD5CgAAQBAJ&q=Jerry+Michalski&pg=PA117). New York: Morehouse Publishing. p. 117. ISBN 9780819232304. [OCLC 903675344](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903675344)

1. Donatiello, Nick (January 5, 1997). ["README On the bookshelves of the digerati"](https://www.wired.com/1997/05/readme-on-the-bookshelves-of-the-digerati-12/). *Wired*. Retrieved September 12, 2016.

1. WagstaffThe, Jeremy (April 12, 2004). ["Article about Jerry's usage of the Brain"](https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB108136605904476908). *The Wall Street Journal*. Retrieved December 27, 2023.

1. Michalski, Jerry. ["Jerry's Brain"](https://bra.in/9vmd9Z). Retrieved December 27, 2023.

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