AI startup advisor 'force multiplier' who shapes serendipity connecting and illuminating dots that matter to create positive outcomes. I leverage deep relationship capital with recognized personal brand balancing business strategy with smart execution to close deals with multiplexed marketing, business development, sales to scale smarter, faster, better.
My focus is neuroAI for #digitalhealth #mentalhealth #wellness #emotionAI, #conversationalAI #psychedelics but also do #futureofwork, #augmentedintelligence, #hyperautomation, #XR and specialize in working with early stage startups.
As LifeLong ‘Intentional Learner' for decades I treat every experience as opportunity to learn with curious and growth mindset where intelligence can be nurtured, expanded, and changed over time analogous to a 'Renaissance man' with wide interests and expertise in several areas.


Five Key Traits of Top Performers
1. Intellectual firepower: crystallized + fluid intelligence
2: Chemistry + Authenticity
3. Values: Integrity + empathy
4. Passion: clarity + conviction
5. Critical Thinking + Judgement

Richard Feynman shares a secret insight into understanding vs. knowledge.
Understanding lets you transfer knowledge to new domains to progress faster with a combination of top-down and bottom-up learning or fluid intelligence because strongest careers are non-linear driven by ‘intentional learning’ and reinvention several times to adapt and stay relevant for #futureofwork

More About Me


The ‘flow state’: Where creative work thrives
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190204-how-to-find-your-flow-state-to-be-peak-creative?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter
Flow is an intense state that leads to a sense of ecstasy and clarity where you know exactly what you want to do from one moment to the other and some of us know how hack ‘the zone’ 😉

How to know what you really want and be free from mimetic desire?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sardire_how-to-know-what-you-really-want-psyche-activity-6876903555937267712-Zosp
via @lukeburgis a great read that largely defines me per key points because have lived anti-mimetic life ;-)
More than just truth telling, honesty is a virtue to cultivate for excellence of character
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sardire_the-virtue-of-honesty-requires-more-than-activity-6876896585373093888--zmv via @psyche_the_mag Sadly, though, honesty has gone missing in recent decades.
Why leaders are such bad judges of character and consistently promote the wrong people https://www.businessinsider.com/why-leaders-are-such-bad-judges-of-character-adam-grant-2019-2?utmSource=twitter&utmContent=referral&utmTerm=topbar&referrer=twitter
the more senior you get the better you think judging character but opposite is true and they promote "takers" even though "givers" are better performers

The Missing Apex of Maslow’s Hierarchy Could Save Us All
https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/the-missing-apex-of-maslows-hierarchy-could-save-us-all
Maslow never got around to publishing the final tier of his pyramid: self-transcendence.



VCs don’t add as much value as they think https://mainstagenews.app/vcs-dont-add-as-much-value-as-they-think-say-founders-sifted/
Value-add includes providing access to partners, talent, investors, customers, sharing knowledge, marketing for product development



Gravitas is authenticity and understanding your real self, including deep-level thought, emotions, beliefs, values, then acting in a way that reflects
1) Be clear about what you want
2) Be open to feedback
3) Have broader conversations
4) Commit to integrity
#futureofwork