01Curiosity & Philosophy
The Purpose of Life Is Living It
A reflection on resisting the impulse to optimize every moment—and learning to inhabit a life while it is happening.
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Investing & Technology
The future rarely arrives fully formed.
Before a new category becomes obvious, it is usually fragile: an unusual idea, an early prototype, a founder seeing around a corner the rest of us have not yet reached.
Conviction begins with curiosity—the patience to understand what is changing, the humility to keep asking better questions, and the imagination to recognize possibility before consensus gives it a name.
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Writing is a way to slow an idea down long enough to understand what it is asking of us.
02Investing & Technology
Beyond AI: Investing Toward General Intelligence
The most consequential technologies rarely arrive as finished answers. They begin as questions pursued by unusually persistent people.
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What Distant Places Teach Us About Home
Travel changes the scale of our assumptions. Distance offers a clearer view of what we carry—and what we can choose to leave behind.
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Stories Help Us Recognize One Another
The films that stay with us do more than entertain. They make unfamiliar lives intimate and return our own experience to us in a new form.
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Living Honestly With Depression
Strength is not the absence of struggle. Sometimes it is the decision to name what is difficult and remain open to connection.
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“Writing is how curiosity learns to stay with a question.”
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