About the Author

Jens Oliver Meiert believes that people have many talents.

Jens is an established expert web developer who has contributed to technical standards of the Web (W3C) and who has laid the foundations for large-scale international websites that reach tens of millions of users every day (GMX, Google). He has written a book about designing with CSS (O’Reilly, 2005/2007), developed frameworks and quality management systems for Google (2008–2013), and got nominated “Web Developer of the Year” by .net magazine (2011).

Jens is an everyday adventurer, described in this very book, who has traveled 6 continents, 40 countries, and more than 200 cities. He has made it his priority to try whatever is new to him, whatever activity or sports or training or even food comes near him, and documented nearly 150 of these in the last 3 years alone. Jens just quit his job, left his city, to go backpack the world.

Jens is an amateur philosopher who has over the last few years studied more than 100 works around the topics of philosophy, psychology, social sciences, religion, spirituality, public relations, marketing, and advertising. He’s an active supporter of and contributor to initiatives for societies that place emphasis on trust, freedom, and rights, and he’s focusing his own efforts on breaking through some of the apathy we observe in our world today.

Follow Jens’s work on his website, meiert.com.