A fully loaded wooden cart moves with a quiet, heavy hum. The weight absorbs the shock. An empty one rattles. It bounces. It makes noise. My grandmother had a proverb for this: 빈수레가 요란하다. An empty cart rattles loudly. She deployed this phrase not as an insult, but as a diagnostic tool. The noise was…
June 2025. I had just joined Favorited, brought in to think about something most companies still weren’t taking seriously: what happens when your engineers start talking to machines that learn from everything you give them. A few months earlier, I’d been at a cybersecurity conference in New York. Not the marketing kind—the kind where the…
The Threshold Problem: Why the Best AI Safety Framework in the World Still Isn’t Enough
Shortly after midnight on September 26, 1983, warning sirens erupted inside a Soviet military bunker outside Moscow. On a bank of glowing monitors, the system reported the unthinkable: the United States had launched a nuclear strike. The alert came from a newly deployed early-warning satellite system designed to detect American launches within seconds. According to…
The Case for Structurally Independent AI Governance The Problem: We govern AI using election-cycle logic, but AI risk compounds on an engineering horizon. This structural mismatch makes catastrophe increasingly probable under current structures. The Solution: We must move beyond “bolted-on” political compliance and toward Structurally Independent Governance. This means an oversight body modeled after the…
In May of 2017, the inevitable finally happened. I witnessed my father take his last breath on a mattress we set up for him on his bedroom floor. He was 75. I had just come back from being in Seoul, Korea for eight months acting in plays with the Seoul Shakespeare Company (I was cast…
Howdy fellow MB/A’ers, With all the shout-outs and interest in biohacking, I thought I’d share a quick Biohacking 101 post to get anyone started on their biohacking journey. Because honestly, if you’re dead set on being the best that you can be in this world, you’ll need to know how to optimize the instrument/machine/engine that…
This was written as an open letter to the producers of Biohack the World. My dear co-producers, As I’m preparing to write the next mailer (and future mailers), I want to impart to you my disposition as a technologist and futurist with regard to recent events and the current political landscape. As you’re probably aware,…
We’ve been socially conditioned since birth to take part in this vastly unsustainable system that has long been decoupled from any consideration for ecological sustainability. We’ve abandoned our balance with nature opting instead for this infinite-growth, consumer-driven market economy, on a planet with finite resources and extremely delicate and interconnected life systems. And gone unchecked, our current paradigms and ways of thinking not only threaten our immediate health but are eventually going to drive us all off a cliff. Is that not insanity?
Fear and panic are born from a lack of accurate information and preparedness. I started biohacking to optimize my physical, mental, and spiritual preparedness. To achieve high levels of each requires deep thought, due diligence, planning, and training. These are pillars in the biohacking discipline.
Launch my health and fitness travel show, HIIT Me. Roadblock: finalizing the pitch deck for networks. To-do’s: lock in a strategic PR partner for the show; find sponsors; schedule shoot dates. Why: to inspire others to take control of their own health; this is essentially the start to my NYC mayoral campaign. Launch my health…