About
For someone arriving from search, a profile, or a forwarded link: who I am and what this site contains.
I work on hard, underdefined problems across business, markets, systems, and technology. The common thread is structural: the useful move is usually to figure out what is actually going on, separate the signal from the story around it, and align action on a path that can actually work.
That has taken the form of building and running an operating business, executing large commercial transactions under pressure, working inside startup and venture networks, and — currently — research and building on AI-enabled reasoning and symbolic systems.
Background
- Now
- Research and building on AI-enabled reasoning, symbolic systems, and tools for understanding complex structures. Selective projects.
- Previously
- Founder and operator (Paper Street). Commercial execution and supply chain at pandemic scale (COVID PPE). Organizer and advisor across startup, angel, and venture networks.
- Focus
- Hard, underdefined, high-context problems; structural diagnosis; business, systems, and markets; foundational research.
- Fit
- Useful where the problem is real, the stakes matter, and the inside view is insufficient, incomplete, uncertain, or distorted.
How to read this site
Work is the operating history, in compact case form. Writing is the archive — essays and notes, longest and most considered at the top of each piece, shorter working notes throughout. If you want the fastest credible read, start with Work; if you want to know how I think, start with Writing.
The technical material is available but not forced into the first impression. It's there when you want to go deeper.
To get in touch, see Contact.