THRIVE :: Empowering Human Action In The Exponential Future

Embark on an empowering journey with Thrive, a lecture series designed to equip you for the unfolding exponential future by cultivating an urgent yet optimistic worldview, exploring the dynamic interplay between emerging technologies and human nature to reveal actionable insights for creating a thriving personal and work life.

Discover the unexpected yet powerful simplicity of strategies that emerge from the big picture, shaped by digestible insights from history, technology, economics, productivity, and psychology. This is not a formula. Get time in breakout groups to discuss the ideas yourself. It’s a deeply humane exploration to provoke YOUR critical-thinking and passionate heart toward creative action.

Session 1:

We Are So Lucky

  • Historical Context & Our Inheritance

  • Why We Don’t Think So

Our Luck Is Fragile

  • Limitation Of Time

  • Progress Isn’t Guaranteed

At An Exponential Crossroads

  • Human Nature Meets Exponential Tech

Session 2:

Pitfalls & Opportunities

  • The Amplification of Decisions

  • The Excess Of Everything

  • The Pace Of Change

  • The Value Of Human 

  • Democratization Of Creation

Session 3:

Capturing The Opportunities

  • Critical Thinking

  • Emotional Regulation

  • Everyone Is An Investor

  • The All-Things Diet

  • The Competence Question

  • Bias For Action

  • Leveraging Tech

  • Leveraging Humanity

  • Your Unique Value

  • Modes Of Creation

  • The Vision-Feedback Balance

  • The Personal Algorithm