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
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
Tantra, Tolle, and Transforming Worldviews
A long, long time ago, in a lab not so far away, a fellow graduate student had just finished reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, and said that it changed his life. I gave it a shot. And then I gave up in the second chapter. It was
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?
A letter to the people who nearly crippled me
1: observations At 12:59 PM PST on March 11th, 2024, you violently swerved your white sedan into the bike lane that I was in. Luckily, I managed to skid my Lyft bike to avoid your car pinching me against the other parked car on the right. In my rage,
How to start running: A biochemical perspective
I started running seriously last year, coming from basically zero aerobic base. I think I made big improvements in a short amount of time, and it's largely because of how I focused my training. There are 3 main modalities of training: 1. Mechanical - musculoskeletal, kinetic patterns, strength, flexibility 2.
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