About
Fifteen years in advisory and investing — entrepreneur and institutional investor across private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund. Now a PhD student at Harvard Business School, researching how organizations allocate attention and find direction.
The common question across all of it: how do we use intelligence — human and artificial — to extend our capacity to see what matters rather than just process more information faster?
I write about this. I teach yoga at the Harvard Business School gym. I advise organizations navigating what I call intelligence transformation — the fundamental restructuring of how companies think now that cognition itself can be externalized.
Yoga is a laboratory for the same questions I study academically: How do you pay attention? How do you stay present when things get uncomfortable? How do you distinguish what you can control from what you cannot? Strategy work asks the same questions at organizational scale.
Third Enlightenment
The framework is spelled out on the Third Enlightenment page. The short version: awareness (First), agency (Second), and now the integration of both (Third).
Read the full frameworkWhat I Do
My research examines how organizations allocate attention and find strategic direction — how resources can hide decay, how organizations determine the right direction when the path isn't clear, and what happens before search when declaring what matters shapes what becomes findable.
The advising work focuses on intelligence transformation. The question is: what happens when any organization can access cognitive capacity that used to be scarce and expensive? Call it intelligence transformation — the structural shift in how companies think when cognition itself can be externalized.
I'm working on three problems: how intelligence should be structured inside organizations so it amplifies judgment rather than replacing it; how executives can find strategic clarity when their industry changes faster than their planning cycles; and how organizations can build systems that capture what they know.
Executive Coaching
I also do executive coaching. One conversation to see if we're a fit. If we are, twelve sessions spread across your lifetime — the first six to eight do the primary work; the remaining sessions are banked for transitions, crises, or questions that need outside perspective.
Background
Wharton and M&T undergrad — management and computer science. Entrepreneur and institutional investor across private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund. Learned how professional investors think: the frameworks, the blind spots, the ways capital shapes what gets attention and what doesn't.
Harvard Business PhD student now, but I still teach yoga three mornings a week at the HBS gym. The newsletter explores questions that don't fit neatly into "tech" or "wellness" categories. What does self-knowledge look like when AI can analyze us better than we can analyze ourselves?
The questions connect. We're in the Third Enlightenment now — writing and print let us externalize memory, digital systems let us externalize computation, and artificial intelligence lets us externalize cognition itself.