SPATIAL COMPUTING

QUANTUM COMPUTING

FUTURISM

METAVERSE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

MACHINE LEARNING (ML)

COGNITIVE ROBOTIC PROCESSES AUTOMATION (cRPA)

SPATIAL COMPUTING QUANTUM COMPUTING FUTURISM METAVERSE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) MACHINE LEARNING (ML) COGNITIVE ROBOTIC PROCESSES AUTOMATION (cRPA)

Jason Alan Snyder

Human After Friction

A moral architect and futurist helping us reclaim agency, authorship, and awe in a world designed to erase them.

We are living in the aftermath of a great smoothing. Systems built for optimization and predictive ease have edited out the very forces that make us human: struggle, surprise, awe, imperfection.

This isn’t a rejection of technology. It’s a reclamation of what makes us real.

Jason Alan Snyder builds ethical architecture for staying human. Through writing, speaking, and design, he helps people slow down to the speed of meaning - and remember that friction isn’t failure. It’s form.

Meet the Builder Behind the Blueprint

Jason Alan Snyder is a moral architect, futurist, and technologist who’s spent three decades building the very systems we now need to question. From inventing global tech platforms to co-creating humanitarian tools like the Luci Lantern, Jason has always been obsessed with one thing: how we design meaning. Today, he writes, speaks, and teaches at the intersection of ethics, identity, and design - offering frameworks for staying human in a world optimized to erase us.

Friction Is Form

The drag we erased is the meaning we lost.

Authorship Over Automation

Your story isn’t a system output - it’s yours to write.

The Speed of Meaning

Slow down long enough to feel what matters.

Design for Agency

Build systems that return power, not take it.

Protect the Sacred

Your story isn’t a system output - it’s yours to write.

Latest Thinking

The death of surprise is a big f*cking deal.

This is not a mindset.
It’s an architecture.

Sharing my expertise through these dynamic platforms.

  • Jason is a tech and innovation genius. the depth of his know-how and digital expertise are very, very hard to match.

    Oren Frank, CO-Founder, talkspace Inc.

  • Jason is one of those rare people that you use the word "brilliant" to describe. "Visionary" is another. His work is testament to it, and he ups the game when it comes to the caliber of thinking around the table, and often times at an exponential level. He breaks convention, tears down norms, and has very unusual expertise and talent that can be quite profound and mesmerize clients and peers alike. Plus, he's got a great sense of humor. It all adds up to invigorating thinking that's stimulating to be a part of.

    David Huehnergarth, Strategic Insights Generator

  • Jason is an innovation genius, visionary and great motivator. I have had the privilege to meet and work with Jason at MPOWERD. Jason is definitely the kind of intellectual catalyst that makes work an amazing experience, ideas just tend to flow and there're always great.

    Karim Khattab, Senior Director | MTA C&D

  • Jason was THE brain behind the invention of JAGTAG. He is an innovator, a strategist, a futurist, a developer and an inventor, to name just a few things he brings to any company. He conceives innovative solutions to meet clients’ strategic needs, and he’s constantly about 10 steps ahead of the technological curve. His work experience and knowledge of new technologies, programming, and information architecture is unsurpassed. And to top it off, he's a hell of a guy to work with. You can't ask for more.

    Tracey Dreby, Account Director at Sinch

  • You don't meet a lot of futurists in your career let alone one that can actually predict the future, but Jason is that man. I met Jason as the VP of Product Development at JAGTAG starting in 2008. As we developed the product and put it out into the market, Jason's predictions made in 2005 were remarkably accurate and his insights and advice we always spot on. Jason has the ability to not only see how technology will be used in the futre but to take that knowledge and apply it into patents. This invaluable insight gave JAGTAG a huge advantage over other companies with our patent portfolio and is one of the principal reasons JAGTAG was acquired by AugMe Technologies in 2011.

    John Cashman, President at Digital Firefly Marketing

  • I've had the privilege of working with Jason at 3 separate companies in my career as a digital producer. From collaborating together on live content production during the Sydney Olympics, to directing project management for the company that Jason founded in 2001, Jason's guidance has always been exciting & deeply rewarding. He is an incredibly intelligent visionary, and I have looked to him for mentorship many times in my 14+ years in this industry. I think his ability to foster forward-thinking, unique, and profitable solutions in both the digital and offline space renders him a valuable acquisition for any organization that wants to steer their strategic vision into some incredible places. I sure hope our professional paths cross again soon!

    Stacey Duda Paradiso, Marketing Director at MSK Engineers

  • Jason is one of the most informed marketing technology leaders I've worked with. He is intellectually exceptional with a very clear uncompromising drive and spirit. I always enjoyed meeting and talking with Jason and look forward to seeing what he leads and develops next.

    Corey Mitchell, Marketing Communication Consultant

  • I really enjoyed working with Jason. I learned a great deal about the digital space from him and his solutions were always cutting-edge. I can only give him the greatest recommendation for a client to use him.

    Anthony Marucci, Senior Level Government Communications & Media Professional | Public Sector - Lead US Federal Government communications | Diversity Champion | Curious about generations | Citizen of the world

  • Jason is the archetype of Innovation should be at an Agency. He brings passionate creative thinking together with a deep understanding of technology. I was always impressed with solutions Jason put forward in the time that we worked together at MRM.

    Jamie Peck, Vice President, Commercial

  • I first worked with Jason over 10 years ago when he joined Zentropy Partners and ran our New York office. The thing that struck me immediately is that Jason was and remains a digital leader in every sense. On the one hand he is a thinker, an innovator and someone who gets things done, but he is also a collaborator, motivator and thoroughly nice bloke. He also inspired great loyalty from his team. In the early days of establishing a digital global network within IPG, Jason helped create an esprit de corps that put creativity, technology and innovation at the forefront of what we did for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses. I was very happy to work with him again when he rejoined IPG, now MRM Worldwide as SVP Innovation. I only wish we had more opportunities to work together. The successful agencies of the future require intelligent free thinkers and fixers who are never afraid to tell it like it is. In my experience Jason is one such rare spirit.

    Matthew Mayes, Co-Founder A-dapt International Ltd.

  • Jason was the catalyst for extreme growth and digital transformation for our office. He thinks BIG. Reaches BIG. And succeeds BIG.

    Marcy Quinn Samet, Chief Growth Officer//Speaker/CMO //Board Member//Brandbuilder//Digital Transformation //Global Client Expert//Driving Businesses Forward

The Human Source Code

 A field guide for staying real in a world that wants to erase you.

What’s Inside:

  • The 5 core principles

  • 10 friction-tested beliefs

  • 3 practices to reclaim agency

  • A note from Jason: “Why I Wrote This”