Picture taken in the new offices — lots of work but at least we got fiber internet in!
As I build and test next-generation startups with AI, my mission is simple:
to build with intelligence, but not lose the soul.
Every day, I work with systems that think faster than I ever could—models capable of generating, analyzing, and optimizing at near-infinite scale. But with every leap in capability, I feel an equally strong pull back to what’s real: intuition, grounding, presence, and meaning.
And I’m eternally grateful to the countless companies, engineers, and open-source communities who are making this possible. The people working late nights to ship cheap, open, and accessible models aren’t just advancing technology—they’re democratizing evolution. They’re ensuring this new era belongs to everyone, not just the privileged few.
But as access spreads, a paradox emerges. The more intelligent our tools become, the easier it is to lose touch with our own. The challenge isn’t how to use AI—it’s how to stay human while using it.
Anti-synthetickness isn’t Luddism. It’s a philosophy.
It’s the refusal to trade essence for efficiency, depth for output, soul for scale.
The New Ascent
For centuries, we’ve externalized muscle—first with tools, then with machines.
Now we’re externalizing mind.
AI doesn’t just automate labor anymore—it automates cognition. It handles memory, pattern recognition, and optimization effortlessly. What’s left for us are the higher functions: intuition, empathy, discernment, and wisdom.
This isn’t obsolescence. It’s ascent.
We’re being pushed up the hierarchy of consciousness.
Those who thrive in the AI age won’t be the ones who out-compute machines.
They’ll be the ones who can out-contextualize them—who can translate chaos into clarity, abundance into meaning.
From Information to Integration
AI gives us infinite information, but information is no longer power.
Integration is.
Mental transhumanism is the expansion of cognition—humans teaming with intelligence beyond themselves.
Spiritual transhumanism is the evolution of identity—the recognition that to stay sane and sovereign, we must grow inward as fast as technology grows outward.
The fusion of both isn’t utopian—it’s necessary.
Without inner evolution, external acceleration leads to collapse.
The Self-Actualized Class
Maslow never meant his pyramid to describe social structure, but here we are.
It’s becoming one.
Those anchored in survival, validation, and status will live in a world shaped by algorithms.
Those who ascend toward purpose and self-actualization will shape the algorithms themselves.
The new divide won’t be rich vs. poor, or human vs. machine.
It’ll be reactive vs. reflective, self-optimized vs. self-actualized.
The former will chase productivity.
The latter will pursue meaning.
And only one of them will remain free.
The Age of Becoming
AI is the mirror we didn’t know we needed.
It reflects not just our intelligence, but our consciousness.
The real question isn’t what can we build with AI?
It’s what kind of humans will we become because of it?
The future belongs to those who use AI not as a crutch for thinking—
but as a mirror for becoming.
