Portfolio Ideas
What are the conditions — institutional, technological, cultural, financial, physical, ideological — under which humans build things that compound across generations?
Capital Allocation
How money shapes what gets built
The mechanisms through which capital flows determine what exists in the world — from venture backing of startups to public market investment to debt structures to government spending. Encompasses the ...
Technological Innovation
How breakthroughs happen and propagate
The study of how technology advances, what makes a breakthrough (vs. incremental improvement), and how markets, social behavior, and institutional structures shape the pace and direction of innovation...
Company Building
The architecture of organizational excellence
How companies are built as enduring organizations — including organizational structure, employee incentives, cultural norms, and operational systems. Extends beyond conventional startups to innovation...
Religious Intellectualism
Faith, reason, and the search for ultimate meaning
The pursuit of religious truth through rigorous intellectual inquiry, including Mormon apologetics and philosophy, Christian apologetics more broadly, and the reconciliation of faith and science. The ...
City Building
The design of human flourishing at scale
What makes cities work as engines of human potential — quality of life, effective services, vibrant culture, economic opportunity, all delivered through competent governance. Includes the study of vis...
People Over Politics
Policy through the lens of human outcomes
An attempt to understand policy divorced from partisan tribalism — focused instead on what actually works to solve problems like crime, homelessness, inflation, unemployment, immigration, and energy. ...
Historical Futurism
Learning from how the past imagined tomorrow
The study of history not as a static record but as a laboratory of attempted futures — how did people in the past envision progress, what solutions did they try, what worked, what failed, and what rem...
The Language of Discourse
Rhetoric, persuasion, and the mechanics of shared understanding
How language shapes collective action — the study of rhetoric (Cicero, John Quincy Adams), the mechanics of persuasion (manifestos, vision statements, rallying cries), and the darker arts of manipulat...
Ideological Family Tree
Preserving and transmitting wisdom across generations
The commitment to creating a multi-generational record of ideas, stories, and wisdom through systematic documentation — weekly letters to children, personal journaling, interviews with family members,...
The Republic of Letters 2.0
The new infrastructure of distributed intellectual production
The transformation of knowledge creation from institutionally-gatekept to distributed networks of independent thinkers. Historically, the Republic of Letters bypassed official institutions through cor...
Open-Source Knowledge
Ideas as infrastructure, not artifacts
The belief that knowledge should be treated like open-source software — living, interconnected, forkable, and in continuous development — rather than static publications that slowly decay. This encomp...