Description

Daniel Arthur Smith is a USA Today & Wall Street Journal best selling author, who’s titles include Spectral Shift, Hugh Howey Lives, The Cathari Treasure and The Somali Deception, among others.

He also curates the short fiction series Tales From The Canyons of The Damned.

Daniel was raised in Michigan and graduated from Western Michigan University where he studied philosophy. Along his career journey he’s worked as a bartender, barista, poetry house proprietor, teacher, and technologist for Fortune 100 companies across America & Europe.

Whether or not you’ve read one of Daniel’s works, you probably have made use of a technology he helped develop during his IT career, which is one of the many subjects we cover in our conversation.

Here’s some of the other topics we discussed:

• The role of books in Daniel’s childhood
• The power and importance of perspective
• The unique experience of growing up in Michigan in the 80’s and how  it shaped Daniel and his career path
• The problems with ‘settling’
• How Daniel got stuck in his IT career for longer than he wanted to
• The important role writing plays in his life beyond a career

Connect with Daniel:
Email: daniel@danielsarthursmith.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanielArthurSmith
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danielsmi

Connect with Steve:
Email: steve@sensitiverebel.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/thesensitiverebel

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