Long-thread builder.
From papyrus to parsec.
Envy nothing. Build.
Every project maps to one of three axes. Each axis addresses a problem that has persisted for millennia.
“The further back you look,
the further forward you can see.”
Heritage Ventures Patent
Coasian economics (1937) + Nash Equilibrium (1950) → cryptographic primitive (2024)
Pathfinders
Abraham Cresques' 1375 map → direct chain to Columbus 1492
Paylyte
Mesopotamian clay tablet invoice → Bitcoin trust protocol
I grew up making things with my hands. Somewhere along the way I discovered that the questions I kept asking — about trust, about value, about how systems survive across generations — had already been answered. Not recently. Three thousand years ago.
I found the answers...or perhaps, the right direction, on calf-skin and papyrus, in the margins of medieval maps, in the trade routes of Phoenician merchants, in the coinage of Lydian kings. The past wasn't a museum. It was a working database — and nobody was querying it seriously.
So I built the query engine. Books tracing the unbroken chain from the first cartographers to the navigators who found new worlds. Protocols applying 3,000-year-old trust mechanisms to the AI agent economy. A published patent fusing Coasian economics with cryptographic primitives. Hardware that encrypts a musician's live performance against AI scraping using ambient data and geo-fenced time. A tarot deck mapping symbolic events across four centuries. Physical objects fabricated in my makerspace, marked with a navigator's cross.
My discipline is simple: envy nothing. Build.
My span: from papyrus to parsec.