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 intentionally take things slow (with sporadic 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.
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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
Ugh, stop using AirPods
This is a PSA I've been holding onto for 4 years, since the pandemic pushed everyone to teleconferencing: You should stop using AirPods for taking Zoom/phone calls. It doesn't matter if you dished out $600 for an AirPod Max – it might feel like a Michelin-star dish on your ears,
#2 energy
One of my weirdest fears is showing up at a dance party and nobody is dancing. This literally happened when I first arrived at this “sunrise rave” I went to this morning. It's a trivial fear, but I love dancing, so I care. On rare occasions, I can overcome the
2024 Annual Letter
Happy New Year from Taiwan! 🇹🇼 My brother and I flew here the day after Christmas to be here for New Years with one of my best friends (Michael what up!) who said I should celebrate New Years here. Absolutely no regrets so far. I'm writing this from a shoes-off Japanese
5 rules of my training philosophy (2024)
I'm a multi-athlete (climbing, running, yoga but also snowboarding, tennis, and rowing). My training goal is to be well-conditioned for a variety of movements, and to have the stability and coordination to not get injured. Strength training is purely supplemental. It's maybe one-fifth of the time I spend running or
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?
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,
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