What am I working on?

Ultraviolet Ventures  —  I run a small rolling venture capital fund. We're a group of  tech creators and founders investing in early-stage startups.

Next Chapter  —  We bring together the most talented young founders and investors in the world into an invite-only community. We focus on potential, not credentials.

Something new —  We asked, if we were building the health care system today, from the ground up, how would we do it?

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How did (and do) I learn?

Most importantly, building things.

Also, quite a few jobs.

And lots of books, podcasts and articles.

I believe in self-directed learning. Reading textbooks, building things, and working in the industry trumps formal education — learning isn't the primary output of the education system.  MBAs will increasingly become an anti-signal.

I believe the limits of human ability are higher than we think. I taught myself to read at 1,000wpm and listen at 3.5x speed (here's how).

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What else am I interested in?

Food, longevity, clinical language models, metabolomics, genomics, probability in real life, skiing, health optimization (first wore a CGM at age 16, tracked sleep with EEG, ran models on my data), architecture, design, neuroscience, great speeches.