• ThisWiki:12Questions/AndriusKulikauskas
• LivingByTruth/AndriusKulikauskas
• MinciuSodas/AndriusKulikauskas

See also: /Priorities, Vision, MinciuSodas/Finances, TheStateOfOurLab, /Travel, LivingByTruth/MyQuest, Concepts, /TestPages, /GuestBook, /Photos, /Files, /Uploads

Who am I ?

I am:

• the founder, sole proprietor and Direktorius of MinciuSodas
• an independent thinker who is on a quest to know everything and apply that knowledge usefully
• organizing a worldwide movement, a culture of independent thinkers, WorkNets
• and working on various creative activities, especially in Lithuanian, including drama (DorasSūnus), poetry, songs (Liūtaširdžiai), drawing and I look forward to working with music and video. Here are my drawings at Flickr.

Contact me at [email protected]

• My email is [email protected]
• Telephone: +370 699 30003
• Time zone: GMT +2 (ten hours ahead of California)
• Skype: minciusodas
• YahooIM: minciusodas
• MailingAddress (as of August 22, 2009): Dukiskiu km, Butrimoniu sen, Alytaus raj, LT-64423 , Lithuania
• My drawings at Flickr

Calendar

• COMMUNIA workshop in Torino from 28 June to 30 June 2010

Tasks

Gyvenimo tikslai

• Rinkti sviesuoliu kulturos veiklas ir dermes.

• Parašyti John Caswell.
• Dalyvauti Suresh Fernando veikloje, aprašyti Minčių sodo verslo kryptis, įvairiai pristatyti galimus dalyvius.
• Ieškoti naujų užsakovų.

• Parašyti Gabrielle.

• Sutvarkyti sausio mėnesio Privalomojo sveikatos draudimo įmoką.
• Išsiųsti Tomo Čepaičio kvitus į COMMUNIA.

• Sukurti tinklalapi Hotel Karolinenhof.
• Parasyti pasaka apie Komisara Reksa.
• Sukurti filmuka Menininko nuotykiai Vienoje.

Pages AndriusTask AndriusKulikauskas Nusiusti sausio menesio PVM deklaracija; patikslinti 2009 metinę autorinių mokesčių deklaraciją; sutvarkyti įmonės nuostatas; paskambinti EdwardDamal; išsaugoti grupių, kompiuterio, telefono duomenis; nuvalydinti dantų akmenėlius; nupirkti kaupiklį. CorporateWall Expand on the idea of organizing around those who can help us break through the corporate wall. Pair up people in our lab to keep touch with them. EarthTreasury/ClassicMathProblems Start making a list of classic math problems, looking for funding possibilities, and consider videos that we could make. EileenClegg Respond to EileenClegg at Dreamfish and about our "Land of Dreamers" artwork and our "economy of dreams". KofiAnnan Write a letter to KofiAnnan, as we discussed at the OpenDavosForum in January, 2009, to ask the Kenyan business community for help to engage corporations to replenish Andrius for his efforts and expenses during the PyramidOfPeace. MeganSmith Write a letter to MeganSmith of google.org about our initiatives such as our HelpDesk. Make a list of our initiatives. Prospects Contact prospects starting with LarryBock.

My life story

I was born in California, but moved to Lithuania in 1997. In order to make a living, I started Minciu Sodas as a business to serve people like myself, IndependentThinkers. I founded Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt in May, 1998 as a sole proprietorship in Vilnius, Lithuania. My purpose was to start a business so that I could live in Lithuania and also have free time for my quest to "know everything and apply that usefully". Here is a diagram of how my purposes and decisions have evolved: MinciuSodas/Principles/Evolution

/WhatDoIWantToDo, /WhatDoIReallyCareAbout, /HowMightIApplyMyself, LivingByTruth/MyQuest, WhatCanWeDoForGod

MetaData

• Skype=minciusodas
• AssistanceRequested=I need one or more large clients who would give $10,000 or $100,000 of work. I also need us to write how we might each spend $1,000 or $10,000 if we had that for our projects. I need a list of parts for the Includer with prices. I need open source programmers who would like to help us build our interfaces. I ask for help to ask our MinciuSodas participants what assistance they would like, and write that on their wiki pages using the AssistanceRequested tag.
• VideoBridgeBuilder=Andrius organizes VideoBridges from Lithuania, including a series of 12 in 2007 for the Atzalynas club.
• InstantIntroduction=I organize independent thinkers. I founded MinciuSodas and WorkNets.
• InstantIntroductionPhoto=
• DeepestValue=LivingByTruth
• InvestigatoryQuestion=How does knowledge of everything unfold? in all its details?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage=LivingByTruth/Overview
• InvestigatoryQuestion2=What is the shared conceptual geometry by which we define and relate our deepest values?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage2=DeepestValue/Geometry
• InvestigatoryQuestion3=How can we organize an online learning environment based on sharing first hand knowledge?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage3= Learning/Environment
• InvestigatoryQuestion4=How can we engage God as an independent thinker?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage4=GodAsThinker
• InvestigatoryQuestion5=Is there a way to organize our investigatory questions which shows how they are related to each other and helps us work together on them?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage5=InvestigatoryQuestion/Groupings
• InvestigatoryQuestion6=How do we organize a culture for independent thinkers in Lithuania?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage6=LT/Lietuva
• InvestigatoryQuestion7=What are the dimensions of activity that define the spirit of global villages? and how might they ground an index for hubs?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage7=GlobalVillages/Spirit
• InvestigatoryQuestion8=What are principles that would help me express my creative spirit in any artistic genre, especially song, drama, poetry and drawing?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage8=Art
• InvestigatoryQuestion9=How can we have activity at our laboratory in many languages?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage9=Languages
• InvestigatoryQuestion10=How can we design community metrics and community currencies so that members of our online community take initiative to help each other?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage10=CommunityCurrency/Online
• InvestigatoryQuestion11=What is a pattern language that would allow us to organize global villages?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage11=GlobalVillages/PatternLanguage
• InvestigatoryQuestion12=How do we organize a worldwide culture for independent thinkers?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage12=Vision
• InvestigatoryQuestion13=What is useful to know about falling in love? and being family?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage13=FallingInLove
• InvestigatoryQuestion14=What technologies are especially relevant for global villages?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage14=Technologies
• InvestigatoryQuestion15=How can we design a comprehensive self-learning program that helps us find and think in terms of the deep principles in every domain?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage15=SelfEducation
• InvestigatoryQuestion16=How can we organize a pattern language repository so that we can apply pattern languages practically?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage16=KnowledgeBases
• InvestigatoryQuestion17=How might the Quran make sense from a Christian perspective?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage17=Quran
• InvestigatoryQuestion18=In what sense may statistical classifiers be thought of as unfolding divisions of everything?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage18=StatisticalClassifiers
• InvestigatoryQuestion19=How does law give rise to law?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage19=LawGivesRiseToLaw
• InvestigatoryQuestion20=How do we have subcultures in a shared culture? What are different subcultures contributing?
• InvestigatoryQuestionPage20=Charter

• How does the knowledge of everything, especially the languages of argumentation, verbalization, narration, manifest itself through people's answers about their lives, as with the 12 questions?
• How can we organize education around games and ethics?
• What is the "kingdom of heaven"? and in what sense is it a culture of independent thinkers?
• How can we express, convey and spread a culture of independent thinkers?
• How can we help people grow? How do we learn to care to include each other and help each other?
• What is an economic engine for a culture of independent thinkers?
• What does it mean to pray in twos and threes, as Jesus says?
• How well can we understand people, in all of their variety, through their own answers, for example, to the 12 questions?
• Dream=A knowledge of all things that informs a culture that encourages people to dedicate themselves to their dreams, and especially, to apply their creativity. A love and care for all people, greater than I can imagine, yet guided by reason.
• Challenges=How do we all make a living? and how do we learn to care to include each other and help each other?
• Location=Lithuania
• ImageUrl=AndriusKulikauskas/andriuspriekismazas.jpg
• FlashDriveEditor = Leader of the FlashDriveEditor initiative as the main business opportunity that the MinciuSodas laboratory is pursuing, and the focal point for the Sneakernet ecosystem, strenghtening our global and local networks and hubs for GlobalVillages.
• Entrepreneur = AndriusKulikauskas: I am looking for clients for our MinciuSodas laboratory, especially to organize large global teams for them, but also am interested in part-time work that pays well, say $40 per hour. I have about $100,000 in debt and would like to find a way to pay that! or at least have it under control.
• MightGive=PaidWork, Online organizing, Software development, Math tutoring, Research
• MightTake=PaidWork, OnlineAssistant
• AndriusTask=Nusiusti sausio menesio PVM deklaracija; patikslinti 2009 metinę autorinių mokesčių deklaraciją; sutvarkyti įmonės nuostatas; paskambinti EdwardDamal; išsaugoti grupių, kompiuterio, telefono duomenis; nuvalydinti dantų akmenėlius; nupirkti kaupiklį.
• Authority=Independent thinking.
• OpenKollabNetwork=Wants to organize a culture of independent thinkers. Interested in establishing credibility and accountability of participants in such a culture. And building a help system and "economy of dreams" for such participants. And supporting Suresh's vision for organizing collaboration among millions of people.

CV and Resume and Looking for Work

See our lab's Services.

Also, I am always looking for more part-time or temporary work. I work as a software developer (PHP/MySQL, Python, Microsoft Access and more). I also organize teams, consult on projects, and summarize regulations. I invent things like interfaces and protocols. I am interested to try something new!

My CV from 2005, also as a Word document. Here is my current resume (April 2010).

I value the chance to work for and with people who wish to invest in each other for the long run.

IWishToKnow

My video IWishToKnow which I made in August, 2009, summarizes my results from my quest to know everything and apply that knowledge usefully.

Some of my best writings

• Summary attempts to cover all of human life.
• www.ms.lt/en/workingopenly/givingaway.html An Economy for Giving Everything Away (with DavidEllison-Bey) pushes economic thinking to its practical conclusion.
• Organizing Thoughts into Sequences, Hierarchies and Networks (with SauliusMaskeliunas) breaks down visualizations.
• MindSet? (with the ThinkingPowerfully? working group) is a standard for exchange between software tools for organizing thoughts.
• Spine for the Web reinterprets the Web as a directory for humans to get things done.
• TheAlgebraOfCopyright offers concepts for sorting out copyright issues.
• Symmetric Functions of the Eigenvalues of a Matrix

My Things

Nokia 6230i phone

Inspirations - from 2004?

I cherish my elders and friends who share with me their creative life: sculptor-painter-poet-singer Algirdas Zokaitis, filmmaker-actor Rimas Morkunas, community organizer (of graf writers and skateboarders) Joe Damal, mathematician-physicist-musician-naturalist John Harland, chef and creative spirit Joe Sochor, David Ellison-Bey of the Moorish Cultural Workshop, and my own father Edmundas Kulikauskas who leads the movement to rebuild our country's royal palace.

I admire the conceptual advances of ChristopherAlexander on pattern languages, GillesFauconnier on mental spaces, GeorgeLakoff on metaphor, StephenWolfram on automata, NormanAnderson on cognitive algebra, JosephGoguen on algebriac semiotics, and SarunasRaudys on neural networks. I am moved by Internet projects that link us to the marginalized: JanetFeldmann's work (KAIPPG, ACTALIVE) for Africans distressed by AIDS, StephenDeMeulenaere's with community currencies, JoyTang's OneVillage.biz for unity centers in the face of the AIDS catastrophe, NitinSawhney's ThinkCycle for design of innovations serving the developing world, and TomMunnecke's GivingSpace for profound ideas on uplift. GlobalVoices, WorldChanging and PositiveYouthNews are very important.

KerrySanto of ModoFacCentral overcame homelessness to become the world's greatest online networker. She's organizing a drop-in centre in Edinburgh. RickNelson has a dynamic community around his Solaroof greenhouse technology. An inspiring team renovated the KB5 “open source village” center in Kirchbach, Austria. MichaelWolff spearheads work-from-home that can open up jobs for social entrepreneurs.

I would love to work with AnthonyJudge's (UIA) database of world challenges, solutions and values. I value the eBible in the Public Domain. I am amazed by rasyk.lt and its 20,000 poems. Blue Oxen is the group most like my lab. I love the investigatory blogs of organizer FlemmingFunch's (New Civilization Network) and artist Natalie d'Arbeloff. FranzNahrada (global villages), HenryMigingo (bottom up economy in Kenya), LucasGonzalezSantaCruz (sustainability) and BenoitCouture (unity in God) are models of open personal growth through activist projects. The Wales Institute for Community Currencies alternates between deep ideas and on-the-ground action.

I am grateful to JerryMichalski for his outreach as an organizer.

I look beyond isolated projects (and failures) to people, ideas and engagement.

Say Hi!

I invite your response at our wikis, our discussion groups, or please write me.

Mon, 21 Sep 09 10:17:55 +0000 Patrick Bunyali Kamoyani: I just wanted to say Hi to you and wish you all the best in your endeavours.

Good day