I work on paradigm shifts.
Writer, engineer, and social entrepreneur. Co-founder of the Mira Fellowship. I believe little changes in perspective can lead to big positive change — and I spend my time building the examples that prove it.
The Discovery Society
How to unlock humanity’s next chapter — a new essay
Nine chapters on where the future went and how we get it back: the Survival Machine humanity spent 200,000 years building, the wrong turn we took in the 1930s when desire became the fuel of the economy, and the four steps to a society built around the thing that created everything we have — the human mind.
Read the essay →Building living examples of better futures
In 2019 I co-founded the Mira Fellowship, a social venture incubator built on a simple premise: the future is not predetermined — it is built by people brave enough to imagine it differently. Each Fellow’s project is a blueprint for a piece of our social future.
Fellows have built the first venture firm dedicated to biodiversity, a storytelling practice that builds children’s confidence, an industrial marketplace for waste, and a dozen other working pieces of a more compassionate world. Their work has been recognized by the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business Review, and the Stanford d.school.
See the futures our Fellows are building →Engineer, storyteller, institution-builder
I started as an engineer in Silicon Valley, building products for startups and companies like TiVo after earning a BS in Product Design and an MSE in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Then I went to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts to learn the other half of the craft: a great idea motivates one person — to move many, you have to tell a great story.
As a filmmaker I’ve written for some of Hollywood’s top directors and producers, and written, produced, and directed award-winning films of my own. My most recent, NEWCOMER, an art-house spy thriller shot in Serbia, opened the Raindance Film Festival and was nominated for Best Picture at the Austin Film Festival.
Everything since has been about putting those two halves together: engineering and story, in service of shifting how we see.
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