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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Essays and reflections on investing, technology, curiosity, philosophy, travel, storytelling, mental health, and the lifelong work of becoming more fully ourselves.
I try to distinguish what can be supported by evidence from what I am still wondering about. An experience can matter deeply while its explanation remains uncertain. Writing is a place to hold both truths without rushing either one.
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Mental Health & Growth
You Do Not Owe the World a Comeback Story
On rebuilding a life, making room for ambition, and finding meaning without having to justify everything that hurt.
An invitation to value quiet progress, ordinary joy, and a future that does not have to redeem the past.
Read on Substack →Previously featuredThe Other Lives Inside This One →The World Is Stranger and More Beautiful Than We Remember →The Sixth Sense: The Genius Hidden in Plain Sight →The Man Who Made Us Afraid of What We Couldn’t See →Listening at the Edge of Consciousness →The Paranormal, the Fringe, and the Soul →What the Paranormal Tells Us About Life, Reality and Consciousness →The Greatest Wealth Creation Event in Human History →The Biggest Mystery There Is →Why Is There Something Here to Ask Why? →The Doorway We Keep Pretending Isn’t There →
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The Shift from Software to Compute
Why the next digital fortunes may depend on the physical world. An illustrated exploration of chips, power access, data centers, financing and the difference between building the future and overpaying for it.
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New visual essay · Society & Investing
The Intelligence Dividend
Who benefits when thinking becomes scalable? A visual exploration of artificial intelligence, human judgment, durable investment value, and the responsibility to build abundance without discarding people.
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Venture capitalThe Discipline of Venture Capital
How possibility becomes an investment. Six perspectives on insight, evidence, ownership, and the work of being a useful partner.Read the visual essay
AI · Angels & venture fundsThe AI Investor’s Map
One technological shift. Different forms of capital. A guide to the AI landscape, customer value, financing, and durable advantage.Read the visual essayRecurring themes
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Notes, questions,
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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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