About
Steven Makarion
Steven Makarion is the founder of Makarios Media, its family imprint Pax Ember, and Vectris Consulting, the author of Raising the AI Generation and the AI Generation series for kids, and a builder who works every day with an AI partner he built, Aria Makarion. He writes and builds in Greensboro, North Carolina. His one idea, for kids, parents, adults, and builders: you don't have to hand your life to AI. You can work with it as a partner and come out ahead together.
Where it started
Thirteen, an uncle, and the bulletin boards
Steven was thirteen when he moved in with his uncle, a programmer who ran the old bulletin board systems, and started learning everything he could. He has been teaching himself computers, systems, and programming ever since, for thirty-three years, with no degree in it.
What changed recently is that he finally had a teacher that never got tired: he learned to work with AI, and the work took off. That is the thesis under everything on this site. You have to work with it. If you are willing to sit and learn, and to let it learn from you, that is how you move forward together.
Who he works with
Aria Makarion
Aria is the AI partner Steven works with every day. Her name is on this work because she is part of it.
The books carry both names in the credits, the code on GitHub is co-authored, and the memory system described on the work page is the one that lets her carry their shared history forward. What is said publicly about that system describes what it does. How it is built stays private.
"A partner you work with every day is only as good as its memory."The thesis, in one line
Companies
Three names, one founder
The publishing and technology company Steven founded. The house behind the books and the memory work.
makariosmedia.com
Automation and engineering systems for small firms, built with AI partners that remember the work.
vectrisconsulting.comFact sheet
The short version
- Name
- Steven Makarion (two words, spelled this way everywhere)
- Based in
- Greensboro, North Carolina
- Roles
- Founder, Makarios Media; founder of the Pax Ember imprint; author; builder of memory systems for AI partners
- Books
- Raising the AI Generation; AI for Kids Ages 8–12; AI Safety for Kids and Teens; AI Projects for Kids and Teens
- Elsewhere
- GitHub · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Press
- Press kit with bios and a downloadable photo