About
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I’m — founder and writer based between San Francisco and Sydney.
I studied finance at the University of Western Australia, graduating as valedictorian. I then started my career at Goldman Sachs in investment banking before realizing the most valuable work I could do wouldn’t happen inside a spreadsheet. Since then, I’ve led go-to-market at early-stage startups and grown a around my writing.
Last year, I sold my first company — an AI media startup called — to , one of the most widely read AI newsletters in the world. I'm now exploring what to build next.
This series began as an attempt to clarify my own understanding but has evolved into this comprehensive review of humanity's most consequential technological inflection point.
The noise around AI is deafening — hype, doom, distraction. But behind it is a real signal: something is shifting fast, and most people are unprepared. This is the beginning of a new economic, cognitive, and even civilizational system. And we’re accelerating into it with our eyes half open.
This series is my attempt to map what matters:
Where we are
What’s likely to happen
And what founders, operators, and investors should be doing about it
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: A look at the unstoppable forces driving AI progress.
: How AI systems are increasingly contributing to their own development.
: How we've never seen so many experts urgently calling for safety measures despite enormous economic incentives to rush forward.
: How deep learning has succeeded in creating intelligent systems by implementing prediction as the core function.
: The winners of the next decade will be those who can leverage AI without succumbing to the relentless tsunami of modern day distractions.
: How every extraordinary human throughout history shared one trait: they refused to believe they couldn't shape reality.
: A deep dive into how to be more agentic.
: 80+ of the world’s most pressing problems.
: How I think things will be in the future, based on the approximate year I think they’ll come true.
