Lincoln Cannon

Lincoln is CEO at Lincoln Cannon LLC, including Thrivous and Discerner. He has worked for large enterprises, including Ancestry, Merit Medical, Novell, Symantec, and WordPerfect. He has worked at startups, including The World Table. And he has worked with investment firms, including the OS Fund.

Lincoln received formal education in business and the humanities. He holds an MBA and graduated top tier from the Marriott School of Business. He holds a degree in philosophy and graduated with honors from Brigham Young University. He is also an alumnus of the Exponential Medicine executive program at Singularity University.

Lincoln is a lifelong computer programmer. He learned to code as a child before the Internet. He eventually taught himself web development and technical marketing. And as computers and the Internet have continued to evolve, his projects have expanded to mobile web, cloud platforms, social media, and blockchain.

Lincoln writes and presents about technological evolution and postsecular religion. He esteems religion as a powerful social technology that, like all technology, presents both risks and opportunities. And he envisions the ethical use of technology empowering humanity to attain unprecedented magnitudes of intelligence, vitality, and compassion.