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My Digital Garden

This is my digital garden for "big important ideas" that I think about often. I wrote more about my thought process for a digital garden here.

"Take a simple idea and take it seriously.” (Charlie Munger)
⚖️Investing 101 2.0

The art of investing is taking finite resources (time, energy, money, attention) and employing them to optimize an outcome. I’m fascinated by the first principles of what it means to simultaneously learn to become a great investor while reinventing the art form.

📚Live The Library

“When you find a writer whose words enter your mind with deep impact and influence, pay attention. Diversify your library, of course. But when you find someone whose words inspire you, drink deeply from the well they have dug.” I constantly look to collect ideas from the peoplle who most effectively inspire me.

🧙Historical Futurism

Ever since I came across the Institute For The Future, I’ve been fascinated with the idea of how people predict the future and understanding how we can look at previous predictions to understand the future. What if you could look at how people in the 1900s thought about the 2000s? What did they get right? What did they get wrong? And why?

🧠Open-Source Knowledge

I’m obsessed with Roam Research. I love Wikipedia. I’m fascinated by the interconnectivity of all the thoughts and ideas that make the world go round. More people should treat their ideas like software that is open source, and in active development. Instead, people treat their ideas like a bridge; stable, but slowly decaying.

🌇The New City

I spent a lot of summers with my family in Luna, New Mexico. We would drive through small towns and my Dad and I would talk about “what makes a city.” Cities get built up around natural resources, large companies, universities. What will the cities of the future look like?

🌎Climate Change

As an investor I see too many people think about climate change as a vertical to be weighed and measured alongside construction tech, SaaS, and neobanks. Climate change is not just a threat it is the threat. But it is also a fundamental opportunity. Climate adjustments will represent the greatest global adjustment in the last hundreds of years.

📜The Republic of Letters 2.0

Historically institutions acted as gatekeepers to knowledge. Over time smart people thinking about hard problems started writing letters that transformed a generation of thinking. Mlle de Lespinasse, Benjamin Franklin, Giustina Renier Michiel, John Evelyn, and countless others made up the Republic of Letters. The internet has unleashed a similar dynamic among democratized thinkers and creators.

🏛️Bookstore Economics

There are few places I love more than a good bookstore. Two of my very favorites are Green Apple Books in San Francisco, The Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, and Powell’s in downtown Portland. While I studied accounting in undergrad I never pursued it professionally. In another life I would love the chance to spend my time thinking through the books for bookstores and how they economically make their business model work most effectively.

⏳Human Nature

On the one hand, people will act in their own self-interest and should be left free to do what they want, giving unfettered power to the people. On the other hand, people are riddled with inadequacies and easily swayed by misaligned incentive. They need guard rails, guidance, and systems to ensure people are protected from each other and themselves.

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My Digital Sandbox

This is my collection of ideas that aren’t watered enough to make it to my digital garden. I wrote more about my thought process for a digital sandbox here.

Sandbox Entries

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Aug 23, 2024 8:56 PM
Journalism
Aug 17, 2024 11:51 PM
PrisonCriminal Justice
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Education
Jul 29, 2024 8:20 PM
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AI / MLData
Jul 27, 2024 1:34 PM
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Venture CapitalFirm Building
Jul 27, 2024 11:52 AM
PoliticsCulture
Jul 27, 2024 11:52 AM
Venture Capital
Jul 27, 2024 11:48 AM
Written
Storytelling
Jul 26, 2024 8:13 PM
Storytelling
Jul 25, 2024 1:57 PM
Jul 24, 2024 7:46 PM
Psychology
Jul 23, 2024 5:28 PM
Jul 23, 2024 4:54 PM
Firm Building
Jul 19, 2024 6:16 PM
Jul 16, 2024 10:47 PM
Storytelling
Jul 16, 2024 10:36 PM
Education
Jul 12, 2024 7:52 PM
Firm Building
Jul 10, 2024 7:24 PM
Written
Jul 10, 2024 5:41 PM
Family
Jul 9, 2024 11:07 PM
Jul 8, 2024 8:33 PM
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EngineeringStorytelling
Jul 3, 2024 2:02 PM
EducationCulture
Jul 1, 2024 7:21 PM
Psychology
Jul 1, 2024 5:11 PM
Education
Jul 1, 2024 1:22 AM
Jun 28, 2024 11:05 AM
Jun 25, 2024 12:36 PM
Venture Capital
Jun 24, 2024 11:01 PM
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Education
Jun 22, 2024 2:32 PM
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AI / ML
Jun 22, 2024 2:24 PM
Culture
Jun 22, 2024 2:23 PM
Storytelling
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Which Came First, The Funder? Or The Founder?
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Venture Capital
Jun 22, 2024 2:18 PM
Investing
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Storytelling
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Venture Capital
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Storytelling
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Psychology
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Writing
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Writing
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Venture Capital
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Venture Capital
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Investing
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Venture Capital
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Venture CapitalPsychology
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Venture Capital
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Venture CapitalFirm Building
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Demographics
Jun 22, 2024 2:16 PM
Written
AI / ML
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Investing
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Design
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Written
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