My Story

I build things — companies, communities, and a working model of how the world actually operates: how money moves, and what the real governance structure of the planet looks like underneath the official one.

I learned it firsthand. I came up in the energy business, traveled the world, and spent ten years as a Quincy City Councilor in Quincy, Massachusetts (The City of Presidents) — I even ran for U.S. Senate. Along the way I co-founded QUBIC Labs, a nonprofit incubator helping founders in blockchain and digital infrastructure get started in Boston. I graduated from Boston College, got an MBA from Duke, and then had a career across private equity, venture capital, and public finance.

Mostly, I’m a student of the world. I train six days a week, read more than is strictly reasonable, and I’m building a body of work out loud — a podcast, this site, and whatever comes next. I’m also having a good time playing around on social media.

If any of that sounds like your kind of thing, stick around.

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Capital Is the Only Magnet

A strategic framework on how innovation economies are actually built — and what Massachusetts would need to do to compete again.