I have moved through a good many jobs and industries: sales, journalist, systems architect, software developer, CTO, investor, and who knows what's next. It was never a plan, only a long argument with my own curiosity, each chapter teaching me the thing the next would ask of me.

I am drawn to hard problems the way others are drawn to mountains or the sea, and I follow a question well past the point where sensible people turn back. The best of what I have done was done beside people who did not think as I did; disagreement, I have come to believe, is a kind of light.

These days I spend my hours alongside founders who begin not with a market but with a scientific insight, going deep with them on the engineering, the product, and the unlovely grind of making a thing real. I hold a stubborn belief that the finest deep technology dies not of poor science but of never being made legible, and that a well-made idea is understood, trusted and bought long before a brilliant one left obscure.

Deep tech and life, trying to make sense of both. Published on Substack.