Writing

Essays and research

Essays and research on innovation systems, scientific discovery, and the conditions that allow consequential ideas to emerge and endure.

Selected writing

The Long Horizon

A framework for seeing innovation as a layered system and for finding the interfaces where promising ideas stall or gain momentum.

Project Aeon

Why compressed timelines do more than accelerate discovery: they filter which kinds of science can be pursued at all.

The Long Horizon

An inquiry into whether our innovation system is operating near its potential or leaving consequential discoveries unrealized.

Essays on the hidden systems shaping innovation, power, and humanity's long-term future.

Writing about science funding, scientific freedom, and open-ended exploration and discovery.