Jim Canto
Indie-Solopreneur
Low Code / No Code since 2008
Crafting 👉🏻 Ventrz.co
Day Job 👉🏻 CIO/CTO @ INCBA
About Me
Being an older GenX'er (circa 1966), I hail from a time long before the Internet was open to the public and long before affordable SaaS (Software as a Service) empowered content creators and small businesses with enterprise-class horsepower for pennies on the dollar. In 2007/2008, broke and desperate after a nasty divorce, I began to embrace the entrepreneurial agency afforded by digital citizenship and was able to cobble together multiple SaaS platforms into a branded business with very little money and without writing code. Yup.. I've been "Low-Code/No-Code" since my earliest days on the web when I began my own Personal Digital Transformation.
Sustainable Independence
My desired outcome is to have both the time and the money to be able to live life on my terms without depending on traditional employment to achieve it.
Drill Down
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Music and Me
I stream music all day, every day. It helps relieve the stress of daily life.In one year on Spotify, I clocked 247k minutes of listening time with ~2,300 different artists. This was before I developed a taste for long-form musical journeys, aka "mixes."Though I have a long history with Rap, Hip-Hop, Rock and Roll, and Disco, my general vibe these days is deep electronic ambient soundscapes and space music. These genres help me to focus without interfering with my thought process.Check out the Blue Dot mix series by We Are All Astronauts embedded here for your convenience.Up for something different? Try the following play made for radio created to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon: Darkside Radio Drama
Ventrz - Founder
Talk about Ventrz here... what it means, and why it exists. 30 second elevator speach is all that is needed.I believe "Community" is the Internet's fundamental core value proposition. At the other end of every online connection is a person. Ignore that reality at your own peril. I'm equally fascinated by the sociological implications of an online, always connected society as well as by the tools and platforms that facilitate it. The R&D in me loves to put different tools and platforms together in ways that allow people to creatively solve problems together.
Purpose
As a purveyor and advocate of "Personal Digital Transformation", it is my belief that we can increase the sum of human happiness by exposing individuals to options they did not know they had. When people have options, they feel hopeful. When people feel hopeful, they are open to inspiration. Inspiration releases creativity. Creativity leads to innovation. Innovation is the precursor to profound change.
INCBA - CIO / CTO
Talk about INCBA, what it meant in 2021 when I landed the gig (solid, work from home base needed to support my existence and pay for my digital tools), and what it has evolved into.Include how being a Low-Code/No-Code Generalist turned out to be exactly what INCBA needed... and still does due to their size.Use the job description developed with ChatGPT to explain what I do here.
