Author & essayist
Ideas worth investing in.
A twice-monthly letter and a growing shelf of books about capital, calling, and the communities that make both possible.
Substack
The newsletter.
Short essays, field notes from the investment table, and the occasional argument with conventional wisdom.
The table is not full
Every generation of investors was once told the seats were taken. They were not.
Read essayA thesis is a promise you can keep
Why one clear sentence beats a forty-slide strategy deck.
Read essayFlourishing as a design constraint
What changes when you build technology to expand human dignity.
Read essayThe university as an ecosystem
Campuses are the most under-leveraged innovation districts in the country.
Read essayServant leadership at the cap table
Governance is a spiritual practice more often than we admit.
Read essayGet the archive and the next letter.
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Writing philosophy
Write the thing you needed when you started.
Most investing writing is either a lecture or a highlight reel. Neither helps the woman who has capital, conviction, and no map. So the writing here is deliberately practical: frameworks you can run on Monday, language you can borrow in a pitch meeting, honesty about what still feels hard.
The books extend the letters. The letters test the books. Both are trying to shorten the distance between wanting to invest and actually doing it.
“Every generation of investors was once told the seats were taken. They were not.”
From “The table is not full”