Growing our own veggies, in Wellington

I happened to be a Unix sys admin in 1993 when I found a new software release: Xmosaic! I love to experiment with new things, so I installed it in our network. The next thing that happened was that I built my first website. It was one of the first 1,000 websites in human history, at a time when only 300 web developers existed on planet Earth! The next thing I did was an HTML course for our staff, and soon after, I opened my first web company. In 1996 (before Google), I developed a multi-language search engine and in 1999, I sold it for a good amount of money. Since then, I’ve been leading international-scale projects, startups, and entrepreneurs while inventing new things.

Eran is a biblical name – meaning “Awake”. “Ben-Shahar” is a surname from Isaiah’s prophecy, referring to Hillel, an angel that inspired spiritual light upon human beings. In modern Hebrew, “Ben-Shahar” is used for “dawn”. Like native Indians and other indigenous people, Hebrew names usually relate to a subject (an animal, for instance) or to a spiritual state of mind. So, the meaning of “Eran Ben-Shahar” is: “Aware person, son of dawn”. I’m a theoretical physicist, a humanist, an inventor, and a traveler. Welcome to my blog.