Joe Quirk is the Communications Director at the Seasteading Institute and author (with Patri Friedman) of the forthcoming book, Why Seastead? How Floating Nations Will Liberate Humanity, as well as the books, Call to the Rescue; Exult; It's Not You, It's Biology; and The Ultimate Rush. He has also been a consultant to Pixar Animation Studios and Scribd, Scriptwriter for Blue Monk Productions, Writer at Working Images, and Publicist at Syntience, Inc.