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I write about structure: in capital, in technology, in the built world, and over the long horizon. These are the frameworks I use to make sense of what is changing.
The 150-Year Life: Why the Hard Part of Living Longer Isn't the Biology
I believe we have a real chance to live past 150. The science is moving faster than most people outside the field realize, but almost nothing about how we have structured human life is built for it.
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The Outcome Is the Architecture: Why Great Technical Talent Still Builds the Wrong System
The most valuable thing a systems engineer brings to a business problem is not knowledge of technology. It is the ability to reduce a tangled process to its core and design backward from the outcome the business actually needs.
The Vehicle Is the Strategy: Argentina, Thiel, and the First Non-Human Economy
Argentina is trying to become the first country where an AI can legally own and run a company. The people who read the legal vehicle, not the headline, are the ones who will understand what is actually being built.
The Engineer's Eye: Why Real Estate Value Lives in the Structure, Not the Surface
Most buyers price a property by its finishes. An engineer prices it by its structure, and the gap between those two numbers is where value is created.