Launching the Alive Prize. $100K to build what makes you come alive.
I've been fixated on a quote from Howard Thurman lately: "Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
We want to help more people find that feeling.
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pov: back in 2021 you responded to an instant message on your Bloomberg Terminal from a user you didn’t recognize located in Hangzhou, probing you about the Multifractal Lévy-Stable Process Adversarial Graph Neural Network Covariates Copula-Driven Spatial Autocorrelation Smoothing algorithm that only you and two other quants in New York were supposedly working on for hyper-optimized trans-Pacific drone-freight routes, leveraging
stratospheric UAVs with real-time wind shear adjustments and machine-learned port congestion predictors.
The message contained a date and the coordinates of a Tsim Sha Tsui dive bar in Singapore, where you exchanged the algos architecture under the table for $30M in Bitcoin private keys split three ways, then went ghost for 4 years.
Now it’s 2026, you’re living in Hong Kong in the summer, Seoul in the winter, views of Victoria Harbour, doomscrolling on 𝕏 every night.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a permit for construction of an all-new ocean container terminal on the site of a former steel mill that could eventually double container traffic through the Port of Baltimore.
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For the first time in history, over 1 in 3 startups were started solo this year.
Introducing The State of Solo Founding: exclusive data from Carta + commentary from top founders and investors.
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Solo founders seem odd today.
Soon they'll be the default.