About
Thought Protocol LLC
Educational Products, Media, and Services.
Everything is Learnable.
Mission
At Thought Protocol, we design learning-forward products that make complex ideas feel approachable. We especially like using games and play to do this. Thought Protocol exists because learning should feel discoverable, not intimidating.
Future offerings will include more games, books, study guides, and videos.
Location
Thought Protocol is located in Southern Maine, currently based out of our house, local libraries, and the occasional coffee shop. For our first game radx.io the codable math game® we've used local Maine talent to help turn PowerPoint mockups into graphics and technical drawings suitable for paper and 3D print. We remain amazed by the level of talent we find right outside our doorsteps.
Founder
Hey, it's me, Daniel! I founded Thought Protocol LLC a few years back, hoping to use the company as a launching pad for educational and learning
products. My early focus with the company has been to develop tabletop games that teach about concepts that I've always found interesting, mainly
in math and science. But I'm also a huge fan of trivia, words, and puzzles, so I'm working on some of those, too. Having played tons of board games
as a kid and then again as a parent, I've always been in tune with game mechanics and dynamics, so I figured why not give this a shot!
A little about me. I grew up in Buffalo, NY (Go Bills!) to Puerto Rican parents, hearing and speaking Spanish, English, and Spanglish since childhood. I left to study engineering
at college and liked it so much, I stayed studying until I ended up with a phd in it. I have navigated a winding career as a NASA scientist studying
how metals condense, as a postdoctoral researcher studying energy-society linkages, and as an environmental science professor, writing books and
teaching courses in energy, sustainability, atmospheric science, and quantitative reasoning.
Somehow, my wife convinced me to move to Maine about 20 years ago and it's been wonderful, minus the cold winters. Having grown up in Buffalo,
this might be a statement about my age more than the cold. It's exciting to be starting a company in Maine and tapping into talent I have witnessed
first-hand, primarily while working as a professor at a local university. My first iterations of radx.io the codable math game® were and continue to
be built with the help of former students, who are now entrepreneurs and business owners of their own.
If you want to reach out to me to talk board games or just about anything else, you can find me mainly digitally on Linkedin (../in/dmartinezphd). I'm also
always game to meet up and play a round at OwlBear's Rest in Westbrook.
Daniel M. Martínez, PhD.