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.
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Awe, Cinema & Philosophy
The World Is Stranger and More Beautiful Than We Remember
On awe, cinema, psychedelics, Jason Silva, and the radical act of seeing the ordinary world as extraordinary.
An invitation to look again—to recover a sense of wonder in the world we move through every day.
Read on Substack →Previously featuredThe 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 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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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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