The Long Horizon
Innovation Layers
A framework for seeing innovation as a layered system and for finding the interfaces where promising ideas stall or gain momentum.
Jeff Stine works on how we discover, enable, support, and sustain consequential new ideas.
I write about innovation and systems, back promising ideas and the people pursuing them, and build institutions for long-horizon exploration and discovery.
Selected writing
Project Aeon
The Death of Generative Wandering
What the pressures of modernity have taken from open-ended technoscientific exploration.
Project Aeon
Surface Areas in Technoscience (Part 1)
Why compressed timelines do more than accelerate discovery: they filter which kinds of science can be pursued at all.
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On Generative Wandering
A case for long-horizon, taste-guided exploration and the conditions that allow it to flourish.
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Leaving Innovation on the Table (Part 1)
An inquiry into whether our innovation system is operating near its potential or leaving consequential discoveries unrealized.
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The Objective Paradox
Why seemingly bad but novel ideas are often discarded before their potential becomes visible.
Experience and practice
A perspective shaped by risk capital and institution-building.
Jeff leads Project Aeon, serves as an Executive in Residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and privately advises a small number of emerging companies. His experience spans risk capital portfolio management, more than fifteen combined years of private-company board service, strategic advisory work at Lazard, and service as a U.S. Army infantry officer.
More about JeffEngagements
Advisory work and public conversations.
Jeff is available for a limited number of advisory engagements with people and institutions working on consequential ideas. He also participates in select talks, podcasts, and other public conversations.