I’m currently on a professional sabbatical. My intention with this time is to build and prototype as many different ideas as I can, get back into a regular cadence of writing, and have fun on the internet.
Having fun on the internet
There was a period of my career, between 2019 and 2023, where I built a community of people online, primarily through Twitter and Discord and occasionally in-person. The new people I was meeting during that time were all curious and conscientious. Many of them are still friends to this day and some of them have also been colleagues, co-founders, or investors. For me, it was a time of professional exploration and play. In that 4 year period, I started a company, grew it, and sold it, I wrote ~50 articles, I moved to Austin, started another company, started a DAO, I joined Gitcoin, and built Allo Protocol.
At some point in 2023, the internet stopped being fun.
I spent 2024 on an experiment that has since not worked out. Great timing, because now in 2025, the vibe has shifted. Interesting things are happening in crypto, not to mention all the creativity that LLMs have unleashed. Founders are building small nuclear generators and supersonic jets. Having agency is cool again. The vibe shifted and it coincides with a time where there a lot of dots waiting to be connected.
All that is to say, this should be fun.
Revisiting my priors
One of the motivating factors behind the timing of this sabbatical is to revisit my priors.
In Making Users Badass, Kathy Woods shares a way for understanding the development of expertise as passing skills through three phases: Can’t do, Can do with effort, and Can do automatically:
One of the key traits of people who develop really deep levels of expertise is the willingness to revisit what’s on C.
You can see this in Richard Feynam revisiting fundamental physics from first principles deep in to his career. In doing so, gifting us all the Feynman lectures on physics (that’s the backstory of these books).
My skill stack can be described as, “software engineer who can pass at all the other things until we can afford to hire someone better.” Well, what it means to be a software engineer is completely different now. So I get to revisit what’s on C!
Open to connections
If you’re interested in working together, then please reach out. And, honestly, the crazier the idea, the better.