Hi and welcome.

This Substack is where I think out loud about politics, culture, technology, and what it means to live through this particular moment.

I bring an unusual vantage point: someone who was deep in the American Right and found his way out, a middle-aged gay dad in Florida, a successful entrepreneur, and a proud dilettante. I have a foot in multiple worlds and draw connections between them. Now I’m trying to map American civilization clearly.

About me

I’m a dad, entrepreneur, and writer based in Florida. I recently founded the Boyd Institute, a policy lab for America’s future. In past lives, I’ve built multiple companies, invested in startups, and published in NATO journals, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, and American Affairs. I’m a Stanford alum.

Where to start

The most personal thing I’ve written here was A letter to myself in 2015. That’s where this whole journey began.

A few other favorites:

• The remarkably talented and alienated late millennial man

• Incel is the new queer

• The humanities revolution has already begun

• Is fiction too female-coded?

• Be the elite you wish to see

• Giving my son a story

• 80,000 dads and not a friend in sight

Off Substack, a few highlights:

• Dealing with the fallout of selling your business (HBR)

• It’s time to embrace memetic warfare (NATO)

• The terrain of discourse (American Affairs)

• Why the American Right should break from Trump and Trumpism (Medium)

Subscription options

Everything is currently free. If you’d like to support my work, consider a paid subscription. Either way, just being here means something.