Jerry Michalski graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.

[1] He received a master in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

[1] Michalski served as the managing editor of Release 1.0, the newsletter published,[2] and originally written and edited solely by Esther Dyson.

[5] Michalski is one of the earliest users of the TheBrain[6] mind mapping and personal knowledge base software, having amassed more than half a million nodes [7] in 26 years of use.

Michalski is a board member of Zev Shapiro's organization TurnUp