The short version.

I work at the seams between fields that rarely talk to each other: theology and technology, venture and political economy, the questions of meaning and the mechanics of how things actually get built. I spent about four years in venture development at a state economic-development agency, the last of them as director, running accelerator programs and a statewide innovation challenge for early-stage founders. I now spend my time on three things: advising founders, building intelligence tools, and writing.

I grew up in the Phoenix area. At Arizona State University, in Barrett, The Honors College, I earned a B.S. in Science, Technology, and Society and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, both summa cum laude, with minors in Philosophy and History and certificates in Symbolic, Cognitive, and Linguistic Systems; Political Thought and Leadership; and the Study of Religion and Conflict. I went on to earn an M.A. in Science and Religion from the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. In 2026 my wife Emily, our son Calvin, and I moved to Amsterdam.

The through-line across the consulting, the tools, and the essays is the same: the long-stable assumptions most plans were built on are coming loose, and the useful work is helping people see that clearly and decide well anyway. If that is the sort of thing you think about, we will get along.