Two Sides
The impatience was mine. The urgency was manufactured.
Builder, seeker, fellow traveler.
I started my first business at thirteen and haven’t stopped building since. I founded a global technology company at twenty-one and ran it for fifteen years. I was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year. I studied AI at Oxford. Somewhere in the middle of all that, I started meditating in boardrooms and questioning everything I’d been taught to want.
That questioning became its own body of work. Four books across four genres. A weekly essay for over a decade. A move to Lisbon on three days’ notice. And now, building software tools for writers and running Portugal’s AI community.
The through-line is one question: what does it mean to live a satisfying life?
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