Writings
On Early Hiring
Principles for assembling an early team — why the team you build is the company you build, and what to actually look for in the first few hires.
Collective Intelligence
Building CoIntel: an AI operating system designed to extend human thinking rather than replace it, grounded in Heidegger, Weiser, and the Extended Mind hypothesis.
A Heideggerian Response to the Meaning of Life
A synthesis of Heidegger, Plato, and Aristotle on what makes life meaningful: confronting finitude while striving toward the eternal.
The Intelligible Self
Nine questions on identity, purpose, happiness, love, and transcendence, with my best attempts at answers.
Don't Trust the Experts
Work in progress.
Algorithmic Homogenization
Work in progress.
Evaluating the Soundness of Leibniz's Cosmological Argument for God's Existence
A philosophical evaluation of Leibniz's first cause argument, its soundness, and three objections from free will, infinite regress, and quantum physics.
Universal Small Business (USB)
Why a post-AGI world calls for universal entrepreneurship over universal basic income.
The Third Layer: Human Consciousness in the Age of AI
How the continual integration of human and machine intelligence reshapes our sense of agency, self, and consciousness, with an eye toward AI-powered brain-computer interfaces.
The "Network State" of Higher Education
A critique of collapsing institutions and a vision for what comes next.