Hi, I’m Nick.

I’m fascinated by the boundless possibilities of the future and the infinite depth of the human experience.

I’m currently exploring AI, psychedelics, and how we create our own reality.

I’m also building Atara ↗, an AI COO for ambitious founders.

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July 16, 2026

The Secret to Success

“The one thing no book can teach you is how to chart your own course.”

How are we creating the parts of our lives we say we don’t want—and how can we create more fulfillment, connection, and success instead?

Your tools are getting more powerful. What if the real constraint is the programming you don’t know you’re running?

The choices shaping your life include the ones you don’t realize you’re making.

How do you learn to see what’s really driving people—and how those motivations shape the world?

The one thing no book can teach you is how to chart your own course.

What looks like failure depends on where you end the story.

How do you turn that understanding into action—and lead people to accomplish things none of you could do alone?

What game designers understand about helping people succeed without telling them every move to make.

The person you’re firing isn’t the only one whose judgment deserves scrutiny.

A self-directed curriculum on the ideas, history, and judgment behind venture capital, with books, films, and other resources along the way.

A self-directed curriculum for understanding the ideas, people, and businesses behind venture capital.

Before choosing investments, examine how you think: bias, probability, persuasion, and the limits of your own models.

How capital, government, counterculture, and personal ambition helped create Silicon Valley.

Books that stayed with me, useful discoveries, and changes that made life meaningfully better.

Eight books on power, technology, human possibility, and absurdity—and what I learned by leaving more room for silence.

The products, habits, and changes in perspective that meaningfully improved my life in 2024.

Six books that changed how I think about power, leadership, food, masculinity, and holding ourselves back.