AK Llyr is a veteran, Mason, writer, and futurist whose career spans military intelligence, global operations, and high-tech innovation. Raised on American military bases and steeped in a tradition of Honor, Duty, and Patriotism, he entered service at seventeen and spent decades navigating the world’s most challenging environments.
After leaving the military, AK built a diverse civilian career as a network architect, contractor, entrepreneur, and political strategist, while pursuing a lifelong passion for learning at institutions like Cal-tech, Berkeley, the University of Washington, and the Naval War College. His work draws from firsthand experience in war zones, disaster areas, and political arenas, offering a grounded, unflinching view of the human condition.
His profound experiences with war, natural disasters, politics, and personal loss inform his empathetic worldview and deep understanding of human resilience and folly. Inspired by encounters with luminaries like Robert Heinlein and Carl Sagan, AK writes passionately about humanity’s future, driven by a commitment to education, animal welfare, and opposing authoritarianism and extremism.
Today, AK Llyr continues to write, work on linear accelerators, engage audiences as a former intelligence analyst, futurist, opponent of the Surveillance State, and professional speaker, still believing that truth and knowledge are humanity’s best hope.