Impact Futurism
The systems that run your health, your money, and your future are broken. These essays are about what comes next — written from the inside of $10B+ in transactions, six psychedelic investments, and twenty-five years of watching institutions fail the people they were built to serve.
Your Blood Lies Without Your DNA
Quest Diagnostics runs 600 million tests a year. 1.7 stars on Trustpilot. An $11B company that built a system hostile to the patient it serves. And what comes next.
Energy Is Money. Money Is Memory. We Just Made Remembering the Most Expensive Thing on Earth.
The physics underneath the AI buildout — and why the largest act of memory-making in human history is happening right now.
I Made Money Today on Psychedelics. I'm Not Celebrating.
On the day Eli Lilly spent $2.8B validating psychedelic medicine, a woman named Tina died. The system that should have saved her failed her.
Your Blood Lies Without Your DNA
The most broken vendor relationship in American healthcare — and the five-layer stack that replaces it.
Energy Is Money. Money Is Memory.
Soddy, Satoshi, and Kocherlakota walk into a data center. The AI buildout as the largest act of memory-making in human history.
I Made Money Today on Psychedelics. I'm Not Celebrating.
Capital is arriving in psychedelic medicine. The question is whether it arrives as healing or as extraction.
Energy as Impact
Redefining sustainable computing — building infrastructure that treats energy as a moral act, not just a cost.
H+ Summit: Rise of the Citizen-Scientist
On stage with Kurzweil. The case for citizen-scientists as the verification layer in a world drowning in misinformation.
Trust Us? Are You Really My Friend?
The evolving definition of trust in the digital age — and why time is the only currency that cannot be faked.
The Google/Verizon Walled Garden Plan
Net neutrality as a trust problem, not a technical one. Why the compromise was always going to fail.
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No cadence. No algorithm. Just the things I couldn't not write — about the systems breaking around us and what comes next.
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