Call me Wes.
Once upon a time I was a neuroscientist, and an environmental activist, who (voluntarily) lived in my car for five years. Now I'm "deep tech" venture capitalist, and a broad-spectrum enthusiast.
I love running, climbing, cooking, comedy, and learning to embody new wisdom with my body, my voice, my eyes.
I take things slow (with occasional hard turbos). Slow airport walker. Slow cup of coffee. Handwritten daily diaries. Mere monthly postings on my blog.
I don't social media. But I send an "Annual Letter" to my friends via email, sort of like a holiday card.
How I maintain friendships: A toolkit
Maintaining friendships is hard. It's even harder for friends in different time zones, friends who are busy and/or ambitious, and friends who have just fallen out of the radar over the years. I am reflecting on a few useful tactics I've accumulated over the years. I hesitate to publish
The Gates to the Forest
I. Here comes the part of the ceremony, where we have to sit through the musings about love, from the only single guy at this entire wedding. Normally what I like to do is tell jokes at the beginning, but this time I will try to keep things philosophical and
What I said in Argentina: Innovation is a Transaction
📖Context: I was invited to be on a panel at the Inter-American Development Bank's Lab Forum in Buenos Aires, where I spoke innovation, climate change, and food security. It's online if you want to watch it, but I wrote the ideas here below. I humbly thank IDB Lab for the
We should make public transit fare-free
💡This is Part 1 of a series that explores a question that I have been thinking about for a long time: Can we make public transit free? We have a fare-based public transit because of the private-sector commercialization of mass transit in the 19th century, which had to operate on
Beats, blood, and blackness
The Kendrick v Drake beef is over. Kendrick won, handily. So why am I still thinking about it? It seems that everyone I talk to is either really invested, or not invested at all. To those of you who can’t stop thinking about this (like me): why is that?
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