What Ties Together All the Endeavors I Touch…

What ties together all the endeavors I touch is that they are built according to the principle of Eros, which takes poison—addiction, food insecurity, prisons, sexuality and its various encumbered expressions of violation, procreation, and recreation, impersonal consumerism, and our view of women and marginalized people—and transforms it into medicine. The signature is not just making it “not bad” or better, but recognizing these dimensions of humanity as those with the greatest potential and elevating them to the superior path.

When I design, I ask the question: What does this want to be? What is the most realized form of this issue or system, if it had all the tools and resources it needed to transform into that which transforms? We take what is considered disposable and use it to make something artful.

I always say that when one of our projects is complete, everyone will want it, even though it was what no one wanted before. All of this is done with an eye toward the near future—the AI Singularity—aimed at preparing the hearts, souls, and minds of people for what I believe will be different by orders of magnitude from anything we’ve seen. 

People will need 21st-century skills: adaptability, resourcefulness, the ability to play with obstacles (ginga), hyperfocus, and the capacity to navigate the mind in creative ways.

What we call “out-of-body” experiences, or facility with altered states—the flow state—will be among the most prized skill sets.