Forthcoming book
Selecting the Future: The Hidden Architecture of Innovation
An exploration of the hidden systems that determine which ideas receive attention, resources, and time, and how that architecture shapes the future.
Learn about the bookJeff 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.
Current work
Ideas and institutions for a longer horizon.
Institution-building
Project Aeon
Project Aeon is building new ways to fund and sustain frontier, heterodox, long-horizon science overlooked by short-term, risk-averse systems. It provides patient capital and community for open-ended exploration and discovery.
Explore Project AeonSelected writing
Essays on innovation and discovery.
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.
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.
The Long Horizon
Leaving Innovation on the Table (Part 1)
An inquiry into whether our innovation system is operating near its potential or leaving consequential discoveries unrealized.
Experience and practice
Work across ideas, capital, and institutions.
Jeff leads Project Aeon and serves as an Executive in Residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His experience spans early-stage investing, more than fifteen 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.
The Long Horizon