11 Facts About Ken Goldstein

Ken Goldstein is a co-founder of Planet illogica and CEO of The Six Shooter Company and the author of the book series, The Way of the Nerd.

Ken Goldstein has been a featured and Keynote speaker in Brazil, Australia, France and Germany.

Ken Goldstein is a songwriter, guitar player, performer and recording artist who often performs under the stage name Jack Dempsey.

In 2014 Ken Goldstein completed his first solo album as Jack Dempsey at Capitol Records.

Ken Goldstein grew up in Northbrook, Illinois, the town formerly called, Shermerville, Illinois, which is the setting for several of the classic films of the late director, John Hughes, who attended Northbrook's Glenbrook North High School.

Ken Goldstein can be briefly seen in the film, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Sixteen Candles, as all of the classic Hughes' films were shot during the years he attended Glenbrook North High School and utilized students as featured extras.

Ken Goldstein is the grandson of Cecilia Dubin, the Russian concert pianist.

Ken Goldstein was a photojournalist for the New York New Times in the late 1980s, a writer for the Chicago Tribune in the early 1990s, and a television news commentator and field reporter for FOX News and NBC, including the on-air host of Too Much Information, a television news magazine for Fox News in Chicago.

Ken Goldstein has said that the first book in his ten part series The Way of the Nerd: Practical Advice for Impractical People has been in the works for twenty years but took only twenty hours to write.

Ken Goldstein is currently writing the second book in the series, The Way of the Nerd: Actually I am Going to Tell You What to do with Your Life, which is set to be released in hard back and ebook formats in October 2012.

Ken Goldstein co-founded Planet illogica, an agency and an online creative community for artists and art organizations.