Develop
Build programs around questions worth answering. The point is not another incremental result. It is to learn whether a new capability can exist.
Engineer. DARPA program manager. Deep-tech advisor.
Technology changes what is possible. Systems determine what becomes real.
I work on the gap between a technology that works and a capability that matters. At DARPA, I build high-risk research programs. At Wave Function Ventures, I advise deep-tech companies trying to scale. I write and speak about why good ideas stall and what it takes to get them into the world.
DARPA•Wave Function Ventures•MIT•Wharton
Develop. Scale. Explain.
Move the idea out of the lab.
Scale
A technical breakthrough is not a company, a program, or an adopted capability. I help teams confront the system around the technology.
Explain
If people cannot see the structure of a problem, they cannot act on it. I use writing, speaking, and visual models to make that structure visible.
Current focus
Most innovation does not die because the technology fails. It dies because the system around it never changes.
See the operating ruleQuestions behind the work
The technology is only the beginning.
What would have to be true for this to work?
Which assumption are we pretending is a fact?
Who can act, and what are they rewarded for doing?
What evidence would actually change a skeptic's mind?