About me
I’ve wanted to write for a long time — since I was a kid, when I tried my hand at poetry, fantasy, and science fiction. My Future Chronicles is my little experiment in finally giving the stories, reflections, and observations in my head somewhere to go.
As you can probably guess, this blog is not about giving specific practical advice or tips on product, growth, or other business topics, though I’ve already had quite a long business career involving:
Starting out in management consulting and working at Bain & Company;
Building my own startups in consulting, e-commerce, and tech more generally;
Joining other people’s fast-growing companies—like Miro (one of my favorite and most interesting chapters), Rocket Internet, and a few other places.
These days, I work at the AI-native company Recraft, which provides a steady supply of things to wonder about.
Over the course of my career, I’ve moved through finance, marketing, operations, product, and growth, and therefore don’t have one very clear or deep industry or functional specialization—besides “tech,” whatever that means. You can learn a bit more about me from my LinkedIn (background and career) and Twitter (people I follow and topics I’m interested in).
I don’t expect my writing here to be disconnected from product and business, or to become completely theoretical and philosophical. Practical business advice just isn’t the main purpose of what I want to do here.
I believe writing is a part of me and a way to understand myself and the world around me. I’m especially interested in transitions: the moments when something familiar starts becoming something else, and we have to work out where we fit. It might be a system, a person, a company, or almost anything else.
I think we are living through one of those rare moments in history—potentially on a fault line in our civilization. It feels very natural, then, to look both backward and forward more often: to understand how we got here, who we are becoming, and where we might be going.
That is probably why I chose the name of this blog.
Perhaps a writer writes because they cannot not write. I’ve spent enough time wanting to find out whether that’s true of me.
