Why Deep People Fail at Business
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, Most of the deepest, wisest people I know are either broke or just getting by. Or they make a decent living but not “killing it” by any means. You know these types. You are one of them – or you wouldn’t be reading this. They are therapists, artists, mystics, meaning-makers. Debt laden doctors or motivated entrepreneurs seeking to do more than build another social media…
The White Coat is Burning
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, It didn’t start with RFK.It didn’t start with Trump.But something is breaking. You can feel it. Public trust is crumbling.Not just in politics.In medicine. What used to be sacred—hospitals, journals, experts—is now up for debate. And not just debate. Open rebellion. An anti expert, anti institution and anti truth zeitgeist has up-ended not only our politics but the very…
Your Prompt Is a Prayer—Start Asking Like It Matters
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, The masses command ChatGPT for task completion. The curious seek information. Only the exceptional ask it for revelation. In an age where every answer, image, voice, and identity can be faked, optimized, or generated we need a guide to staying human. Paradoxically, LLMs can help with us with this – but only if we ask the right questions. The question behind the question….
Sell Me This Life: Persuasion in the Age of AI
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, We’ve all seen it. A smart, credentialed, well-meaning professional—offering a discounted lab test, a biohacking bundle, or a free consultation, SaS, consulting services —and getting… crickets. You can practically hear the tumbleweed blow across their digital storefront. The problem isn’t their offer. It’s their orientation. They’re selling the thing, not the…
Google Maps Failed Me. So Did Faith.
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, Joshua Tree, California – I am lost and not sure what to do. Strange, arid, foreign desert engulfs us. My phone blinks “SOS.” The gps is gone. I turn the car’s A/C to full blast to so I can’t hear myself think.But my body doesn’t forget. An inky feeling in my stomach is creeping slowly to my neck. I look back. My wife is unbothered on her phone, looking at old photos…
Vitality Capital: Years are the New Dollars
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, Wealth isn’t just measured in dollars—it’s measured in years. Lifespan. Energy. Fertility. Cognitive edge. These are the new currencies of power. These are also the new battlegrounds in our era of division and disagreement. We used to think healthcare inequality meant lack of access. Now it means biological class warfare. The gilded age is back. Only this time, it’s…
How to Be Bold Without Becoming a Monster
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Goethe You can be bold or you can be comfortable, but you can’t be both. Too many people, myself included, opt to surf rather than make waves. We mask these choices as being reasonable, mature or considered. We don’t realize we lose opportunity, adventure and our souls in the…
The Group Chat is the New World Order
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, Power and influence now harbors in shadows in elite group chats. Group chats, not Instagram or the TikTok, are the central social architecture of the day. They are the modern day campfire, boardroom, and barbershop. They are vibey – intimate, ephemeral, and conspiratorial – and influential. For a society that is more transparent, group chats are the ultimate retreat to…
The Algorithm Can’t Save You. Myth Might.
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, When a tradition, such as ours, is failing to get its message across — when its mythology is no longer fully functional — terrible things can begin to happen. The mythic structure of the society no longer supports the psychological development of the individual. (Joseph Campbell Myths of Light). In age of collapse, the only way to survive is to live mythically. Myth…
Everything Works. Nothing Feels Real.
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, When I see my young son learning to walk, climb and play, he is a boy unafraid to explore but also fail. He runs, falls, and picks himself up – again and again. He’s constantly pushing himself at the edge of his capacities. But my pride is tinged with sadness and maybe something darker – shame. I am reminded of all the times I took the easy way out. The times I sought…
