Sheldon Greaves earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley while living and working in Silicon Valley before the dot.com bust. Pursuing his doctorate on a shoestring and divergent interests led him to develop a different approach to intellectual work. Throughout his long and varied career, Sheldon has used the tools of “guerrilla scholarship” to do interesting intellectual work outside of academia.

Since his graduation his intellectual life has included founding a university for intelligence professionals, publishing articles on puns in ancient Mesopotamian omen texts, a podcast on the Old Testament, and working in cybersecurity for a major financial corporation.