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For a long time (21 years!) I hadn’t defined my views on the world or my direction. This living document is my attempt. Also, I rewrite these from scratch roughly every month or two, so don’t be surprised if they change 🙂.

Values

• Life is about progression. Click below to see how I think about spending time to optimize progress.

  Dune Board Game

• Never satisfied. I can and will be proud of what I/we have accomplished, but I’m always looking forward toward what’s next for progress.

• I’m not afraid of risk if it comes with the right possibility of rewards.

  • I try to base all of my decisions based on the expected value of progress.
  • Don’t forget the Kelly Criterion - almost all risks I take cost time, or some other finite resource.

• As a proxy of these values, I tend to seek discomfort and change.

People

The mafia/salon-group/biker-gang I’d like to build is full of rad folks who:

• Actually act to push civ forward in a somewhat similar definition of progress.
• Understand that scale matters almost more than anything else. There is both progress and beauty in scale.
• Learn fast and is willing to commit hard. Holds strong views loosely.

If you are one or more of those things, reach out to me at [email protected]! I’d love to meet you.

Progress

My definition:

Progress = pushing the boundaries of what we can know while min-maxing individual suffering and happiness.

This is the current north star that I am orienting my work around. This is the “north” direction in the Dune Board Game!

Direct Progress