Ten-Year Vision

I believe strongly in the power of envisioning the future you want to live in. Describing it clearly is a forcing function. If you can't say where you're headed, you can't make decisions that get you there. Here's mine.

I am living inside a life that once felt unrealistic to even articulate. It required trusting a version of myself I hadn't grown into yet. The thing that surprises me most is how natural it all feels.

The Place

I live within a self-sustaining creative village in the woods, an hour outside of a major city center (New York/SF). Close enough to be in the conversation, far enough to remember that conversation isn't everything. I share this space with people I love: friends, collaborators, family, elders, children. The community is dense with talent across music, engineering, science, education, health, and art. Curated for kindness, curiosity, and capability. We build things together and raise children together. We share meals daily. We train together. We argue honestly and repair quickly.

My children grow up surrounded by adults who are alive in their work. They see creation as normal. They see aging as honorable. They watch ideas become real objects, real institutions, real change. They do not separate life from learning.

The Work

I am no longer defined by a single company. Sonora exists, and it's thriving, but I exited operational ownership years ago and transitioned into a long-term advisory and stewardship role. It became something larger than me. Watching that happen felt like watching a child leave home successfully.

What replaced it is a portfolio of meaningful influence. I invest in and advise frontier companies across education, health, creative tooling, and human thriving. My edge is judgment, pattern recognition, and taste. I see systems early. I help founders avoid the traps I once fell into. My involvement changes trajectories without requiring constant presence.

Alongside that, I spearhead a small number of original projects. Each one is ambitious, strange, and deeply aligned. None of them require me to fracture my attention. They run cleanly because I learned how to design for durability.

The Money

Financial life is abundant and quiet. Capital compounds whether I pay attention or not. I make decisions slowly and from values. Money became infrastructure for freedom, experimentation, and generosity a long time ago.

The Music

Creatively, I am in the best period of my life. Music remains the throughline. My playing is unmistakably my own. I release work when it feels complete. Some of it reaches far. Some of it stays inside the community. Both matter.

The Space

I work in an air hangar that functions as a modern creative lab. Music studios, fabrication tools, experimental labs, long tables for thinking and building. The boundary between art and engineering barely exists here. We build technology and we stay human. That's the whole point.

The Body

My body supports all of this. Strength, endurance, mobility. Health is embedded into the social fabric of my life. Training is communal and joyful. Aging feels participatory and dignified.

The Partnership

My partnership is deep, playful, and resilient. We nurture maturity and wisdom in one another. We challenge each other to grow up. There is independence without distance, honesty without cruelty. We hold each other to high standards with care, and we are better elders, parents, and humans because of the way we relate. Love here is formative.

The Shift

Internally, the biggest shift is calm. Grounded confidence. I trust my instincts because I earned them. I trust stillness because it feeds momentum.

The System

Everything compounds together. Community multiplies creativity. Creativity feeds business. Business funds freedom. Freedom deepens relationships. Relationships strengthen the next generation. Nothing cannibalizes the rest.

I got here by refusing false tradeoffs. By insisting that ambition and humanity coexist. By building slowly enough to get it right, and boldly enough that it mattered.

Looking around, I see a living system. One that will outlast me. One I get to live inside every day.

A stable orbit. And it still feels like the beginning.