Everything started at a piano.
Piano first, then physics and engineering. Then building. All a similar act. Listening to a system until I can hear what it wants to become. Lately that system is intelligence itself.
Richmond, Virginia
I learned to listen before I learned to play.
My parents had to convince me to stop practicing and go outside. Long before you learned an instrument, you listen. My work still unfolds in such a way.
Physics and engineering
Then I went down to the atoms.
I studied physics and nuclear engineering at the same time. One to know the fundamentals of the world, the other to make them do something. A system doesn't care what you meant. It does what it was built to do.
Founding
Understanding wasn't enough. I had to build.
Companies became the instrument. Founding taught me how intent becomes a working thing: a team, a product, momentum. Most of it is composition, not command.
Investing
Backing builders taught me what building couldn't.
Investing is listening to many systems at once: what compounds, what breaks, why. Taste in people, problems, and timing is a technical skill. It is earned slowly.
Now
The system I'm listening to now is intelligence itself.
Intelligence belongs inside the architecture of what we build: context, memory, judgment, and coordination designed in rather than bolted on.
Contact
Still listening.
For collaboration, advisory conversations, or something you think I should hear.