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Your mind is a faithful dog. It will chase any stick you throw.

Your mind is a faithful dog. It will chase any stick you throw.

I don't know even if I like humans. We do some terrible things. But I love humanity. And what is humanity? Humanity is not what's in us. It's what's between us. If you see yourself in a negative mode, beating yourself up, you're asking a disempowering question. Should I fire this person? Should we launch the product or not? Should I leave my job and start a startup?

I don't know even if I like humans. We do some terrible things. But I love humanity. And what is humanity? Humanity is not what's in us. It's what's between us. If you see yourself in a negative mode, beating yourself up, you're asking a disempowering question. Should I fire this person? Should we launch the product or not? Should I leave my job and start a startup?

Okay, wait, change the question. Create a better, more specific, constructive question. And then the answer becomes obvious.

Okay, wait, change the question. Create a better, more specific, constructive question. And then the answer becomes obvious.

I got started in my parents' divorce as a four-year-old. I got started feeling disconnected from the two people I love the most and who did not seem to find a way to connect. That's where this pain became hunger. And then in my 20s, I studied philosophy and was trying to find how I can contribute.

I got started in my parents' divorce as a four-year-old. I got started feeling disconnected from the two people I love the most and who did not seem to find a way to connect. That's where this pain became hunger. And then in my 20s, I studied philosophy and was trying to find how I can contribute.

And I was really interested in cinema and the camera and talking to people to ask questions, to have conversations. to feel a sense of connection to other people. And I would think, yeah, it's because when you're a kid and your parents get divorced and your world falls apart and you're looking for that sense of connection. That was my experience for me.

And I was really interested in cinema and the camera and talking to people to ask questions, to have conversations. to feel a sense of connection to other people. And I would think, yeah, it's because when you're a kid and your parents get divorced and your world falls apart and you're looking for that sense of connection. That was my experience for me.

And so then here I am in my twenties with a camera and I realized the camera is a bridge. It's a door opener. You show up to someone with a camera and you ask a question. In some sense, it gives you a door opener. It's a bridge. And so I became a filmmaker for 15, 20 years.

And so then here I am in my twenties with a camera and I realized the camera is a bridge. It's a door opener. You show up to someone with a camera and you ask a question. In some sense, it gives you a door opener. It's a bridge. And so I became a filmmaker for 15, 20 years.

And then the last 10, 11 years with my experience design studio called The Skin Deep, I'm really interested in how the experience, the emotional experience of being human is shifting. And that's what I've been, my team and I have been exploring for the last 10, 11 years.

And then the last 10, 11 years with my experience design studio called The Skin Deep, I'm really interested in how the experience, the emotional experience of being human is shifting. And that's what I've been, my team and I have been exploring for the last 10, 11 years.

I don't know, the makeup of my personality, along with that experience of a feeling of lack of connection. So I went in the opposite direction. I searched for connection. I searched for intimacy. And, you know, my 20s and 30s, as I was exploring my own romantic relationships, I could feel the reverberations of the divorce in my own patterns, in my own way of thinking.

I don't know, the makeup of my personality, along with that experience of a feeling of lack of connection. So I went in the opposite direction. I searched for connection. I searched for intimacy. And, you know, my 20s and 30s, as I was exploring my own romantic relationships, I could feel the reverberations of the divorce in my own patterns, in my own way of thinking.

how did I circumnavigate around people emotionally? And I'm talking about the intimacy. And I think in 2014, when you looked around the world at the time and you saw how technology was shifting so much politics, it was shifting the financial currencies with cryptos coming out and dating. I mean, people were using dating apps and it was really coming.

how did I circumnavigate around people emotionally? And I'm talking about the intimacy. And I think in 2014, when you looked around the world at the time and you saw how technology was shifting so much politics, it was shifting the financial currencies with cryptos coming out and dating. I mean, people were using dating apps and it was really coming.

And I was single at the time in New York and I just saw how technology was shifting the way we were relating to one another. But at the core, like if we go to the seed, I believe for me, at least in the current understanding of my life and the current vantage point of looking back, is a sense of disconnection as a young child, trying to make sense of this huge world.

And I was single at the time in New York and I just saw how technology was shifting the way we were relating to one another. But at the core, like if we go to the seed, I believe for me, at least in the current understanding of my life and the current vantage point of looking back, is a sense of disconnection as a young child, trying to make sense of this huge world.