I’ve been writing on this site for well over a decade. The work here spans entrepreneurship, travel, tech, and now systems thinking, politics and the metacrisis. I’ve curated what’s most relevant for the other pages and left the rest here for anyone interested in the longer arc.
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Principles
Starting from the day my 4th grade class dove into the Hobbit, I voraciously read fantasy books. They were an escape into wondrous worlds where I could live a thousand…
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Decency
Many people seem to believe that decency is a luxury, like polite language – nice to have, but not relevant when it’s time to fight for what we believe in. …
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Cozying up to the Metacrisis
Starting in 2023, I shifted my consumption of information towards a deliberately sparse diet so I could focus my attention on cultivating the inner creative who had been underexpressed through…
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Hot Swapping the Blog
We’re back, and you didn’t even notice the difference. The old site was built from scratch on Rails during my heyday as a web developer. Then life got *really* busy…
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A response to Seth Godin on NFTs
This is based on a tweetstorm Recently, @thisissethsblog posted about #NFTs, saying they are a "Dangerous Trap" His 4 arguments are reasonable-sounding surface concerns but they're all off the mark.…
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Give NFTs a Chance
This post is based on a Tweetstorm It's pretty clear that NFTs have broken into the mainstream and, predictably, are causing all sorts of consternation because they're still in the…
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The Most Important Lessons I Know
These are some of the most important lessons I have learned in the 33 years of my life, which started as a pretty informal checklist and expanded to become the…
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UX Equilibrium
Everyone can agree that blockchain has a UX problem. The top apps right now have literally dozens of users. And no small effort has been undertaken to try and fix all…
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Why I’m Interested in Blockchain
It started as a weekend project. A VC friend had put me in touch with one of his portfolio founders with a “you two should connect, I think you’ll really…
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Talking Your Book
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A Practical Framework for Identifying Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence
Despite being years deep into the new Age of AI, there is still surprisingly little clarity around how to systematically approach and model the space in order to find opportunities…
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What it Means to be AI-Driven
The conversation about Artificial Intelligence has become so muddy lately that it is important to be very clear about what we mean when we say an organization is "using AI"…
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How Artificial Intelligence is Closing the Loop with Better Predictions
Much of the hype around Artificial Intelligence centers on some vague sense that it continuously learns from the world around it so it gets ever-better at performing tasks. In reality,…
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The Virtuous Cycle of AI Products
The Virtuous Cycle of AI Products, also called the "AI Flywheel Effect," is one of the most exciting ideas in Artificial Intelligence and it's also incredibly simple. Essentially, when AI…
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How to Fix and Avoid Burnout
Burnout sucks. I'm not talking about that "I can't wait for the weekend" feeling or even the glazed-eye look you gave your parents when returning home from finals week during…
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New Zealand’s South Island: The Crown Jewel of the Southern Hemisphere
New Zealand's South Island is the crown jewel of the Southern Hemisphere. 14 hours from top to bottom and 5 from side to side, it's a tiny area that's packed…
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New Zealand’s North Island: Rainbows, Hobbits and High Places
I planned this trip with the strategy of getting the most difficult parts (India) out of the way early and making sure that each sequential stage to follow would be…
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Australia: Sydney to Brisbane on the Noisy Toy
The final miles to Sydney were uneventful, an anticlimax after the glorious rides of the days before. But the city was a worthy adventure on its own and, after dropping…
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Australia: High Country from Melbourne to Sydney
Throughout my life, a common theme has been the gentle but persistent whisper to "Go West". This urge, which pushed me to explore the western US and to eventually move to…
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Bali: Surfing Through a Curated Slice of Paradise
The sheer white drapes pulled back to reveal a perfect panoramic view. On one side, rice paddies were bathed in the light of the setting sun that filtered unobstructed into…
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Southern Thailand: Pictures Worth 1000 Buckets
Southern Thailand represented a completely different sort of experience from the north. After landing in Phuket, I immediately felt my mental armor returning. Where Chiang Mai had exuded casual comfort,…
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Northern Thailand: Bustling Bangkok to the Mountains of Chiang Mai
I sat in the back of the Uber as we traveled to downtown Bangkok and breathed slowly out, feeling all the muscles of both my body and spirit slowly unclench.…
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Kerala: God’s Own Country
I looked forward to Kerala during almost every day of the trip so far. The southernmost state in India is known for its beauty and I was more than ready…
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Karnataka Rocks: a Journey Through Hampi and Badami
"WAKE UP! WAKE UP WAKE UP!!!" …As if I could have slept anyway. The overnight bus from Panjim to Hampi was a rollercoaster of hills and honking for 10 hours…
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Goa: Debunking the Good Life
The entry into Goa's Dabolim airport was completely different than the smoggy rush of Mumbai. There was the same bureaucracy – the taxi unions have an iron grip on travel…