Writing

Based on recent meetings it would appear that the national security establishment may share Leopold Aschenbrenner ’s view that the US needs to get to ASI first to help protect the world from Chinese hegemony. I believe firmly in protecting [...]  Read more

First Pavel Durov, the co-founder and CEO of Telegram, was arrested in France, in part due to a failure to comply with moderation requests by the French government. Now we have Brazil banning X/Twitter from the country entirely, also claiming [...]  Read more

I let meetings take over my life. For reasons that I might get into some other time I said yes to way too many meetings. My schedule became ever more packed, often running back-to-back for entire days. It became harder [...]  Read more

I have just returned from an exciting voyage: crossing the Atlantic on a sailboat. You can find updates from along the way on the J44 Frolic website , Twitter/X and Instagram accounts. In this post I am gathering up my [...]  Read more

Donald Trump is unfit to be the president of the United States of America. He is unfit to hold any public office. It boggles the mind that a number of investors and entrepreneurs have come out in support of Trump [...]  Read more

The US political system is in turmoil because the Republicans have been high-jacked by Trump and the Democrats have become hypocritical technocrats. I have written a fair bit about Trump and will write more, but today’s post is reserved for [...]  Read more

Growing up in Germany my parents and I would spend two weeks every summer going to the Chiemsee to sail. We stayed at Gästehaus Grünäugel in Gstadt (no that’s not the resort in Switzerland ). I learned how to sail [...]  Read more

It’s been a long time since I have written here. And I miss it. There has been a confluence of factors that have made it difficult. First, there has been simply finding the time. I have been crazy busy at [...]  Read more