Out of Scope

The Freight Train Business

Our business is simple: human freight trains on a single track, full speed, forever.

Here Be Dragons

Dare me to connect flunking out of college, Winnie the Pooh, and investment banking? Done.

The Arena vs. the Stands

I'm Declaring a Rivalry with Rex Woodbury

Descending Mount McKinsey and Other Storytelling Woes

The universal tragedy of learning to speak Human again after accidentally becoming a PowerPoint

Dogwhistling is out. Airhorning is in.

How to fire your conscience, confess your sins, and raise $15M

Intro to Investment Performance

New Message (Tomorrow, 9:47 AM)

No Minor Leagues in Tech

The San Francisco giants are in a league of their own

Where Did I Put That Thought?

What Dewey do with all this information?

The Uncorkening

Gatekeepers hate this one weird trick

Future Frameworks: Net Positive Cognitive Friction

Slow Food

Don't Text Me Bro

The End of Knowing

What the collapse of education reveals about a world where information is free, but wisdom still costs everything.

Return on Belief

Empathy-driven alpha stems from the emotional skill set venture doesn't teach

The Four Horsemen of the AI-pocalypse

High-stakes advice isn’t dead, it's just deeply confused.

Please, Thank You, and Other Expensive Habits

Welcome to Media 4.0

Algorithmic slop killed the "Creator Economy"

AI might be the best thing for humanity since we forgot how to be human.

How Conformity Is Killing Innovation

Beyond the Pedigree Trap

What actually matters when backing first-time founders

The Hidden Founder Pipeline

This is Out of Scope

Out of Scope is a newsletter about innovation, opportunity, and capital – and ideas that don’t fit neatly into the system, written by someone who never did either.