The Foundation
Five essays.
One worldview.
If you're new here, start with these. They're the load-bearing walls. Everything else is built on top of them.
"Boiling the Human" — H+ Summit / Harvard-Kurzweil
“What happens when the people building the future forget to ask the people living in it?”
Because the line between human and machine was drawn on a stage at Harvard in 2010. This transcript captures the moment the question stopped being theoretical.
Read this essayTrust Us? Are You Really My Friend?
“In a world optimized for speed, the most radical act is patience.”
Because trust is the only currency that compounds. This essay is the thesis statement for everything else on this site.
Read this essayPsychedelics Could Become Extractive Capitalism
“The medicine works. The question is whether the business model will poison it.”
Because consciousness expansion without accountability is just another gold rush. Six investments deep, this is what the view looks like from inside.
Read this essayThe Ball and Blockchain: Obstacles to a World-Changing Trajectory
“Every revolution gets co-opted. The question is when you notice.”
Because decentralization promised liberation and delivered speculation. This essay maps the gap between the vision and the reality.
Read this essayReturn on Investment — Are You Going Green?
“Green isn't a color. It's a calculation.”
Because impact without returns is charity, and returns without impact is extraction. The math has to work for both.
Read this essayAfter the Foundation
Once you've read these five, you'll know whether this work resonates — or repels.
Either response is useful. The essays that follow explore psychedelic medicine, payments infrastructure, enterprise technology, tokenized impact, and the personal cost of building systems that matter. Ninety dispatches from twenty-five years in the field. No algorithm. No sponsors. Just one person's attempt to make sense of the largest wealth transfer in human history.