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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 Greatest Wealth Creation Event in Human History
Artificial intelligence—and especially the path toward AGI—may create more wealth, companies, and billionaires than any technological transformation before it.
An optimistic exploration of what happens when intelligence becomes scalable: productivity expands, discovery accelerates, new markets emerge, and entirely new categories of enterprise become possible.
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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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