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What LTCM proves

Long-Term Capital did not fail because its positions were wrong. It failed at a layer the Liquidity Pool does not have.

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Two instruments, both of them his

He designed the uncapped note. He agreed the silver bullet. Nobody imposed either — which is the whole argument for structural rather than contractual enforcement.

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Every episode

Cornerstone, Scholes, the liquidity argument, Consilient, access, and the two educations — each tagged into the graph and traced to its sources.

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A graph with no single root can be entered anywhere, which is liberating and useless in equal measure. Connections are ordered routes through it — each one an argument, each built for somebody in particular.

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Three generations, three threats

One man helped build the deterrent that held for fifty years. His son spent his life arguing with what it became. The third is building the layer that makes both arguments unnecessary.

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The interface, and the layer beneath it

Raskin started the Macintosh. Tesler built the GUI. Kay was a Disney Fellow. All three are in this record — and this is the same move, one level down.

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A man, a camera, and 2,300 miles

Four men drove without stopping from Oakland to Alabama in a car built for two, to walk at the front of Dr King's march. One of them was Hare's father.

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The entity graph

Every person, company, concept and event in the record — each with the account, its provenance, and an open invitation to correct it.

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AI's four problems

The four things the industry says about itself that nobody has solved, the single missing layer beneath them, and the three mechanisms that resolve them.

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Nobel & Turing

Twelve results set against the criteria by which those prizes are actually given — each one published with the condition that would defeat it.

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The phases of the life

Heritage, Birth of a Hare-Brain, Foundations of Networks, Genesis of the Grand Vision, Realizing it — and the Era of Abundance ahead. Every chapter a full hub.

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The Circle

The mentors, the friends, the romances, the celebrities, the nobility, the journeys — the record's most forwardable rooms.

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People

462 recorded

Collaborators, mentors, investors, adversaries, family. Some are dead, most are living, and every entry is open to correction by the person named.

AJ Agarwal lost $200,000 in the coup — then saved the company for $40,000 and a BMW Z8Aaron Alter, the fast-track associate who wouldn't close the checksAaron Jacobson made ten due-diligence calls — then a partner's title caught up with the workAaron Martin — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAbdul Shaikh — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAdam Bosworth mentored me at Microsoft, then said it could not be doneAdam Dell's remark about helicopters, which saved me from a margin callAdeo RessiAdewale Omoniyi — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAjay Arora — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAjit Nazre ran the diligence, then surfaced at Kleiner the same week as Ray LaneAlan Baratz ran JavaSoft, then ran the competitor — and we stayed friendly anywayAlan Kay, through Disney ImagineeringAlexander Sukharevsky — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAlisa Bowen — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAlisa Mall was the reason I introduced myself to Adam Dell — she now runs Michael Dell's family officeAmanda Goltz — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAmy DuRoss led Prop 71 and then I got to know her well at Navigenics — David Agus introduced usAndy Bechtolsheim wrote Google's first cheque, and gave me Bill Joy's emailAndy Grove's first Stanford class — which I got into by accidentAneesh Krishna — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAnil Nori, Asera's CTO — the sentence about our discussions cuts off mid-wordAnna Ehrnhardt — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAnne HareArjay Miller, Ford's president and Stanford's dean, whose name is on the awardArrah Tabe-Bedward — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAsad Jabbar — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAshima Gupta — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAshley Haynes-Gaspar — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationAunt Linda, of Bakersfield and San RafaelBasil KarampelasBernard “Bunny” Lasker, former NYSE chairman — the nose in questionBernie Lacroute and I bonded over PDP-11s and Chateau MargauxBill Borden — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationBill Chappell — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationBill Coleman, co-founder of BEA Systems, was CEO of ResilientBill Davidow, co-founder of MDV and author of The Virtual CorporationBill Draper offered the $3 million term sheet — and was at the table when it diedBill Hambrecht's term sheet had the superior termsBill Haseltine of Human Genome Sciences made the introductionBill Joy: “Bill knew.”Bill McDermott ran SAP's federal side when we camped out there — then ran SAP itselfBill Weeks — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationBilly Zane: a wild night off Times Square, then a precision-medicine conference at StanfordBjorn Hjelm, Verizon's lead identity architect, set up dozens of meetings — and stands as a referenceBob Epstein co-founded Sybase — then went off to fix the climateBob Sternfels, McKinsey's Global Managing Partner — the introduction that opened the 2024 threadBrent Olson — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationBrian Anderson — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationBrian Axe co-founded the startup Kleiner priced at $900 millionBruce Harris — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationBruno Wang, of the Nobel Sustainability Trust's leadership — met at the summit's VIP tableC. Roger Glassey, my Berkeley advisor, and the NeXT machineCamilla Olson took me to the Kabbalah Centre, where I met MadonnaCandace Martin — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationCarlos BustamanteCarol Diamond organized the Markle councilCarol Dweck named the growth mindset — the psychology under this record's Eileen Gu passageCaroline Goulding — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationCasey Coleman — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationCharlemagne, where the family record ends — and why that says less than you thinkCharles Clark — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationCharles Phillips was my favorite analyst at Morgan Stanley — then Oracle made him co-PresidentCharlie Firestone was the Aspen Institute's identity expertChris D’Errico — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationChris Van Berkel — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationChristi Deakin — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationChristina Ayiotis — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationChristy Turlington: my friend said I'd actually fallen in love with Ed BurnsChuck Mortimer — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationCindy Ball — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationCindy Zollinger cofounded Cornerstone Research and later ran itClaire Gribbin — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationClarence So of Salesforce — met at a party, because of the girlfriendsClayton Christensen saw that the architecture bypassed his own DilemmaCongressman Billy Tauzin opened the door to BostonConstantine ran the Empire on multiple faiths and took baptism on his deathbed — the essay's thesis, fourth-century editionCorinne Martinez looked shocked — reasonablyDan Case of Hambrecht & Quist — who introduced his brother to the company that became AOLDan Lynch built the internet's plumbing — and he personally knew my grandfather from ARPADanica Marinac Dabic — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationDanielle Ramo — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationDanny Hillis worked for one Haseltine at Disney, and the record met him through the other thread entirelyDarby Williams wrote a check that outlasted $3 million of institutional moneyDave Brown of Oak Hill took the term sheet back and changed the termsDave Lankford — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationDavid Agus took a call mid-meeting, hung up, and said: that was a young kid named Mark ZuckerbergDavid Baron opened our first meeting with 'everything we told you was a lie'David Brady taught me the Wall Street Journal TestDavid Brooks, my favorite political commentator — now at The AtlanticDavid Cheriton, who wrote one of Google's first cheques — and made the introductionDavid Lansky took Esther Dyson's call — and Hare joined the Markle councilDavid Marquardt, Microsoft's first outside investor, opened the doorDavid Merrill — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationDavid Roberts ran the CIA's spy satellites — then founded the Zaplet Kleiner made famousDavid StutzDavid Yoffie of Harvard Business School, visiting, became a mentorDeepak Chopra sat down with us at the Aspen bar — and I didn't recognize himDennis Williams — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationDiana Farrell ran the McKinsey Global Institute when Lenny made the introduction — then the NEC, then JPMorgan's think tankDianne Feinstein, whom I first met at her cabin above AspenDick HardtDick Kramlich of NEA liked the pitch and was overruled by his own partnershipDick O'Neill, who ran the Highlands ForumDina Juliano — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationDodi HareDon Hirsch — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationDonald Trump: what actually knowing him amounted toDorothy Attwood — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationDoug Ayer of ICP backed Actional — where a future Microsoft president ran productsDoug McMillon — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationDoug Merritt, met at the PC Forum lunch tableDr Marie Charles nominated me for the Aspen Institute: “audacious to the point of recklessness”Dr. Carolyn Clancy ran AHRQ when the advocacy landedDwayne Walker ran the group I sat in at Microsoft — the Client-Server Applications Group, 1991–92E. O. Lawrence, who invented the cyclotron, was my grandfather's close friendE. O. Wilson gave me the commission, the foundation, and the nameEd ArkinEd Barbier, the environmental economist I met at the Nobel summitEd Britan — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationEd Ekstrom made me pick one vertical — and opened the Utah corridorEd Kozel, twice Cisco's CTO and a Santa Fe Institute regularEd Russo: Trump's environmental hero-maker, at my table at the Nobel Sustainability Trust — and a man the Trust can work withEileen Gu: neuroplasticity on her side, and an open invitation on this pageElaine Johanson — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationElizabeth Fowler — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationEllen G. White co-founded the Adventist movement — and a Hare worked directly with herEllen Lukens — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationElvis Presley, met by Hare's mother at a Heidelberg-era military mixerEmily Weeks, USAID senior advisor — met at the Nobel summitEric Beinhocker wrote The Origin of Wealth — and now runs the Soros-backed institute at OxfordEric Haseltine, formerly of the ODNI, put five doctorates in one room to break itEric Sachs, met where Markle rewired American health dataEric Schmidt, before he was Eric SchmidtErich von Däniken wrote the cabin's textbook — and a Swiss journalist at Stanford knew him personallyErik Freed built the company that became Consilient while I was on sabbaticalErin Egan — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationEsther Dyson ran the room where this record's introductions kept happeningEvan Shore — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationFlorence Haseltine changed medicine for half the populationFrancis Collins led the genome and then the NIH — and asked the FDA a question this record answersFrank Caufield of Kleiner Perkins: “you're like Steve Jobs, and I don't invest in anything”Frank Quattrone's team took Evolve public — one of the last three tech IPOs before the bustFred Terman, the father of Silicon Valley, was my grandfather's mentorFreddy Abnousi — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationFreeman Dyson, on Project Orion and how to respect the deadGail Kalbfleisch — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationGarth Saloner, later Dean of Stanford GSB, co-taught the Grove classGary Gensler was in the room on December 10th, 2008Geoffrey HintonGeorge C. Hoffmann — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationGeorge DysonGhislaine Maxwell: one party, several calls, and a napkin I still haveGilman Louie ran In-Q-Tel, and sponsored me into the Rosslyn diligence roomsGiuseppe Zocco cofounded Index Ventures and was on the roadshowGreg Licholai, ICON's Chief Medical and Innovation Officer — five years at McKinsey Solutions firstGreg Schott, GSB '91 friend, refined Resilient's business plan at MDV — then MuleSoft, then SalesforceHans Vestberg hit it off with his fellow Swede — and a Tier 1 carrier is the architecture's force multiplierHans van Arkle — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationHarjinder Sandhu — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationHarold Hare is very big and guards the house — so don't try anythingHeidi Klum asked me at her own party whether I recognized herHelen Hare married Alan Perry — Kettering residency to Orange County plastic surgeryHolly Hawkins — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationHubert Dreyfus argued philosophy against AI — and taught my motherHugo Teufel III — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationIan Campbell — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationInbar Badian — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationIra Klein championed this work through four organizations — Aetna, Janssen, Health New England, TempusIris M. Steine, Consilient AngelIrv Grousbeck's entrepreneurship class — the one I could not get intoIsaac Newton unified physics, then went and fixed the moneyJJ Mullane co-founded the gourmet organic roach coach with Laurene Powell — and is one of my good friendsJack Lewin: founding chair of the EP3 Foundation, and the path to Bertolini — now leading HawaiiJacqueline Corrigan Curay — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJames Joaquin of Ofoto, a Fourth Street neighbor, re-introduced me to Mitch KaporJames Kaplan put me in front of forty CISOs — and the Aetna decade started in that roomJames Phillips ran a $20 billion platform group at Microsoft — I did a project for him back at ActionalJames Pitaro — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJames Ringold — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJamie Heywood founded PatientsLikeMe with his brother — and the ALS institute before itJane Horvath — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJane Metcalfe, up the hill in Berkeley — the other courtesy ticketJanet Woodcock ran drug regulation itself for three decadesJasmine StirlingJason Weinberg, Pam Alexander's friend, and the first link in the Maxwell chainJay Short chaired the E.O. Wilson Foundation — and answered 'very impressive guy' in a week he had no timeJeanne Bayless of Blyth SoftwareJeff Barr — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJeff Raskin started the Macintosh, then spent his life saying it was wrongJeff Schilling — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJeff Shuren — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJeff Weiss and the Wallenberg routeJeffrey Caso of McKinsey holds a seat at the 2024 tableJerrell Jimerson of Disney has been a sounding board for a decadeJessica Hill — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJessica Mega — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJill Olmstead — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJim Allchin, architect of Windows NT, sat in the next chairJim Clark founded three billion-dollar companies — the third attacked the same plumbing Resilient didJim Gray, Turing laureate, on transactions and what settlement requiresJim Karkanias sat on the Markle council that shaped a decade of health policyJim Lanzone — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJim Malernee of Cornerstone Research, and “a leech on a maggot”Jim Michael, surrogate father — and the punch cards at Evans HallJim Routh heard the pitch at a CISO summit, then funded seven million dollars of the proofJim Woodhill's house at 154 D Street: my roommates were Senator Pat Toomey and Speaker of the House Paul RyanJoe Bahr — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJohannes Jaskolki — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJohn Battelle, friend of the circuit years, close to Narry SinghJohn Chambers and the Cisco acquisition machineJohn Clippinger of Harvard's Berkman Center — and a witness in the roomJohn Crowley married my mother — six years her junior, and the record approvesJohn Doerr over lunch in Aspen, on what he actually cared aboutJohn Freshman — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJohn Halamka — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJohn Holland's Hidden Order is what the 1998 draft was built onJohn Hurley deferred Stanford to command a tank in the Gulf WarJohn Leggate of BP taught me to navigate the executive culture — over James Bond and drinkJohn McLaughlin keeps the Valley's memory — and made the film this record keeps checkingJohn Morgridge gave me five meetings at Cisco headquartersJohn Pleasants ran Ticketmaster, Revolution Health, then Disney's gamesJohn Rumsfeld — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJohn Warnock made the page programmable — PostScript, Adobe, and the PDFJohn Wilkins, Cromwell's brother-in-law, founded the Royal SocietyJon White — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJonathan Nebeker — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJonathan Paul Hare, who invented the Quantum Privacy NetworkJonathan Schwartz wrote NeXT software before he ran SunJose Galvez — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJosh Mandel — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJoy Avalon Stansberry lived among the concrete lions — then ran a motel on Route 99Julia Seidelin, who wanted to open a raw-foods restaurantJulie Brill — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationJune Whitson, 1916–2015, who carried the whole record and taught me the methodJustin Herz — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKaja TravnikKalin McKenna — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKamal Narang — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKang-Xing (KX) Jin — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKaren DeSalvo — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKaren Zacharia — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKarla Brollier: the VIP invitation that became mine, and the Santa Fe Institute tour I arranged for herKat Mahan championed this work at every role since Surescripts — and her LinkedIn proves itKate Berry sat on the Markle council that shaped a decade of health policyKate Johnson — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKatherine Chou — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKatie Jordan Watson — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKeith Campbell — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKeith Enright — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKelsey Mulcahy — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKen Rudin made the introduction to Larry SonsiniKevin Mandia of Mandiant hosted the last Kaplan-era meetingKevin Surace built the first big AI virtual assistant — Portico — a generation before SiriKevin Tsujihara — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKim Scardino — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKishore Suresh — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationKyle Malady — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationLari Hamalinen — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationLarisa (Lara) Strawbridge — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationLarry Brilliant hosted the Google summitLarry Ellison funded the institute — and the message on the Agus page is addressed to his cost of capitalLarry Mohr, co-founder of Mohr Davidow VenturesLarry Page — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationLarry Sonsini took one young entrepreneur a year. I got thirty minutesLarry Tesler invented cut-and-paste — and lived on the same communeLaurene Powell Jobs: two red cars on the Oval, the Culture Club, the roach coach — and everything she is a link away fromLeigh Madden — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationLenny Mendonca seemed like a really nice guy at McKinsey — the governance titles surfaced laterLily Cheng — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationLinton Wells funded the Highlands Forum from inside the DoDLisa McLane — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationLisa Woods — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationLoree Rodkin, who introduced me to Ghislaine Maxwell over talk of the Santa Fe InstituteLouis Woodhill accepted 5% — then demanded 10% through a walk-in closetMadonna, met at a Kabbalah session: she was coolMalcolm Clarke — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMandy Cohen — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMarc Benioff — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMarc Singer, and the Hedera conversationMarc Sorel of McKinsey moved the scheduling — the 2024 thread's quiet engineMarcelo de AndradeMarcus Osborne — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMargaret Hare worked directly with Ellen G. WhiteMargaret ‘Maggie’ Whitson met Elvis in Heidelberg — and Bavarian aristocrats duelled over herMarissa Mayer staffed a modest Google booth at D1 — we talked for half an hour, uninterruptedMark B. McClellan, whom I know well — Brookings, then Duke-Margolis, and many meetings sinceMark Bertolini's air-cover made the Aetna proof possibleMark Hoffman ran Sybase, the Emeryville forge of Consilient's database benchMark Patel — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMartin Hellman, Turing laureate: he taught Hare the cryptography, then investedMartyna Skowron — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMathew Spolin, co-inventor of the process-thread patentsMathis Wackernagel, who co-founded the Global Footprint Network — met at the Nobel summitMatt Scutari — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMeera Kanhouwa — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMelania Knauss, met at Heidi Klum's party — I took no notice, which tells you about the roomMelissa Cha — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMichael Daniel's White House cybersecurity team took the briefings in 2013–14Michael Hodgkins signed WebShield's first paying contractMichael Keller — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMichael Mauboussin, known from the Santa Fe Institute before he was Chief Investment Strategist at CSFBMichael McCord, Milliman's microinsurance lead — one of the Fellows I have introduced aroundMichael Minor called me the smartest GSB graduate in forty years — then I led the coup against himMichael Spence, Nobel laureate: why he took Vice Chairman and not the chairMichael Stonebraker: Ingres, Postgres, Illustra — the Berkeley lineage the talent came fromMicky Tripathi — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMike Gyure — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMike Jansen — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMike Leff has championed this work since 2013 — from Accenture partner to AT&T's consulting sales chiefMilad Bahrami — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMitch Kapor founded Lotus — and James Joaquin re-introduced us on Fourth StreetMonica Simmonds — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationMurray Gell-Mann, who named the quark, refused to rename it for meMy father marched beside Martin Luther King at Selma, and photographed itMy grandfather ran the Titan II program, stood up ARPA, and has a 200-word obituaryMy grandmother kept every National Geographic since the 1920sMy other grandfather invented chaff, and died at forty-sixMy sister Cassidy Arkin is the reason I was in those rooms at allMyron Scholes, Nobel laureate: privately uneasy about LTCM's markets, months before the fallNancy Watkins, Milliman's climate-resilience principal, among the FellowsNarry Singh was my best friend of the PC Forum years — the record owes him far more than thisNeal StephensonNiall Brennan — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationNigam Shah — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationNuala O’Connor — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationOlchi Skant said yes in the Stanford Quad — the only proposal I ever made with a ring in my handOliver Cromwell — my ancestor’s nephew — accidentally created the Royal SocietyOmar Salah founded MD Portals — and the proof of concept ran through Ira KleinPadmasree Warrior heard the pitch that produced our first commercial customerPadraig Moloney — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationPam Alexander was my patron, and let a broke man borrow her lifePascale Thomas — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationPatrick Nettles answered 'noted' and 'done' — the two best one-word replies in this recordPaul Arnold met the NEA backers at Marc Singer's instigationPaul Berg, who spliced the first DNA at Stanford, paused the field to think about it, and gave Steve Jobs a landmark lunch — a man I never met but know through many who didPaul Meyer, met through Esther: Voxiva, Text4Baby, and then the Commons ProjectPaul Ryan, Speaker of the House, was my roommatePaul Tibbits — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationPaula Ehrlich, who runs the E. O. Wilson Foundation now — Jay Short introduced us, and she agreed to the TrustPawel Czech co-founded the network that turned a Saudi billion toward AI buildersPeggy Hamburg: a drink at the Aspen bar, and three hours at the FDAPeter DiamandisPeter Knez opened the Nobel Sustainability Trust to me — and became Chairman of Palm Global in Dubai on the way home from COPPeter Lee — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationPeter Nobel, chairman of the Nobel Sustainability Trust — and the Nobel family I met at the summitPeter Norvig said it needed ten to twenty years and a major breakthroughPeter Yared opened the Netscape doorPierre OmidyarPrince Andrew, one conversation, October 2000Prince William of Orange, one of three names in the family ledgerRachel Ramoni — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationRalph Clark, Evolve's CFO, was in the chalet that nightRam Iyer — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationRamsey Hanna closed the checks — and became the lifelong attorneyRay Conley was twenty-nine when he was made CEO of my companyRay Lane went radio silent for two weeks — then called to say he'd joined Kleiner PerkinsRay Ozzie built Lotus Notes — I knew him at Lotus and again at MicrosoftReed Hundt, former FCC chairman, ran Obama's transition for Treasury and the SECRegis McKenna taught Silicon Valley to talk — Apple's story was his craftRich Moyer, a recurring name the record now owes a pageRich Muth, CTO — who publishes the corpus and built the MCP serverRichard Pazdur — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationRichard Spires, IRS and DHS Chief Information Officer, became my PresidentRichie Saville, deaf in one ear from rugby, said 'Great'Ricky Bloomfield — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationRob Glaser went from Microsoft to found RealNetworksRob Sherman — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationRober Roberts — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationRobert Burgelman taught the strategy course, and I loved himRobert Califf ran the FDA twice — Duke's trial engine built himRobert Freeman of Goldman Sachs — and the analysis I did that showed he was innocentRobert Hall cranked every parameter to the maximum — and the jury went with itRobert Margolis — dinner with Jack Lewin at the Health Evolution Summit; 'very, very nice'Robert Musacchio was waiting inside the AMA when I came in from the -10 wind chillRod BeckstromRohit De Souza, another of Ray Lane's due-diligence men, known from the Asera orbitRon Ellis, met at Tesseract, would have been an Evolve founder — the handcuffs were golden and fittedRon Kline — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationRoni Zeiger — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationRupesh Chokshi — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationRuss DeLeon put $1 million into Resilient — and lost WebShield's first cheque to a fight with ChevronRussell Le Page, philanthropy advisor to the Nobel Sustainability TrustRuth Parasol co-founded PartyGaming — and she was a good friend firstRyan Asdourian — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSamantha Scovanner — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSameer Bade — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSandra Smith, who turned my relationships into paying deals — starting with the first million at BPSandy Hare was in the room for the whole announcementSaneel Vasram — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSanjay Chheda of Databricks — a high-leverage nodeSatya Nadella is one degree away, twiceScott Blackburn of the McKinsey Center for Government — formerly the VA's CIOScott Cook built Intuit on watching people — and sat on the board of the market for trustScott Gottlieb, the commissioner who moved fastest — and writes it all downScott McNealy interrupted: 'I need to say hello to my best customer'Scott Renda — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationScott Sandell of NEA told me to camp somewhere elseSenator Pat Toomey was my housemate on Capitol HillSergey Brin — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSheena Singh's two-week wedding in India: two hundred models, assorted nobility, and Bismarck's great-granddaughter in my traveling partyShelley Lyford, who always made me want to be a better person — and I am nowShou Chew — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSimon Olson of New Native, who hit it off with his fellow Swede Hans VestbergSimran Chana of Cambridge's Frontier Technology Lab — my buddy, confirmedSir John Browne asked me to teach Tony Hayward to think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneurSonia L. Coleman — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSoumya Banerjee was offered the keys to Verizon's identity architectSri Madabushi — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationStan Trepetin — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSteve Ballmer and the Microsoft executive crucibleSteve Case of AOL, and the meeting at Revolution HealthSteve Jobs: the same first job, the same mentor's shadow, the same commune state — and a documentary whose narrators I mostly knewSteve Wozniak: the third teenager on an HP line in this recordSteven Bratt — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSteven Makofsky — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationStewart Brand of the Whole Earth Catalog was our neighbor on the mudflatsStuart Dreyfus handed me Hinton's back-propagation paper at BerkeleyStuart Kauffman's autocatalytic sets, imported as mathematics rather than analogySu Chen — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSue Siegel: MDV, Affymetrix, GE's Healthymagination — and a lot of rooms we were both inSue Simon, surrogate daughter to my grandparentsSumbul Desai — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSumesh Sundareswaran — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSundar Pichai — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSusan Fox — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationSuzanne Tamang — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationTamer H Farag — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationTerry Milholland, the IRS Chief Technology Officer who sponsored the deploymentThe man on the ferry who knew Lenin and was there when Trotsky was killedThomas Dohrmann — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationThomas Gaweke — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationThomas Osborne — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationThomas Stockham, Stanford GSB — and Scott Sandell's mentorTim Andrews was at Esther Dyson's 2006 conference — where everyone who was anyone in personal health metTim Gilday — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationTim O'Reilly, known mostly through Esther Dyson — and Sebastopol is just up the road from PetalumaTim Stitely — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationTom Dohrmann ran McKinsey's global public sector practiceTom Noyes laughed: 'I always knew you were crazy'Tony Blair turned Sir John Browne's Gulfstream around — so I got the private dinnerTracy Elizabeth — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationTracy J. Wang, chief executive of the Nobel Sustainability Trust — the 'Tracy' of the Weiss sessionTullan Holmqvist was the first girlfriend I ever brought home — and she was immune to my familyUncle Harold and Aunt Marjorie took in the fractured household — and kept a room-sized train empireVal Vaden: Harvard then Stanford, my boss, then the competing term sheetVandana Bhardwaj — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationVenkat Korvi — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationVicki Seyfert-Margolis carried the pilot — the FDA's innovation scientistVictoria Vaughn, Sandra's best friend and Vince's sister — I heard about him for yearsVijay GoelVince Vaughn is in this record twice, and Hare has never met himVinod Khosla: founding chairman of Asera, co-investor with Bunny, and one of the three who lured Ray Lane to KleinerVint Cerf was on the same stage — and the internet's co-architect belongs in this record's argument anywayWalt Smiley recruited me for a bloodless coup he could never be connected toWarren 'Bunny' Weiss co-founded Asera with Vinod Khosla — and the diligence path led to KleinerWarren Kibbe — a Catalyst Graph node, dossier in preparationWilliam the Silent: the Prince of Orange my family descends fromWyc Grousbeck, now owner of the Boston Celtics, gave me my nicknameYang Lan — 'the Oprah Winfrey of China' — at the Nobel summit's VIP tableZander Arkin: McKinsey to Carlyle, step-cousin to my step-sister, and the door to Lenny MendoncaZoe Baird, Markle's president, the third organizer
Organizations

73 recorded

Companies, universities, agencies and institutes — the places where the relationships were formed and the work was done.

Actional: web services and XML management — the engagement that connects three threadsAetna funded three and a half years of proof — the deployments this corpus cites everywhereAsera: composite applications to Evolve's adaptive — the mechanistic cousin with the power-map backersBP: Lord John Browne proposed crowdsourcing on our platform in 2001Blyth Software: Omnis, DEC, and the Immaculate RevolutionCeridian bought Tesseract for $52M — then sent the cease-and-desist that met the $90 million storyCisco Systems, and five meetings with John MorgridgeClarkson, where my grandfather was presidentCornerstone Research: fourteen people, and Myron Scholes on the rosterDatavant, the health-data connectivity company on the launch-partner listDigital Equipment Corporation paid millions for one connectorDossia: the giants' consortium that proved the demand a decade earlyEvolve Software began in a house on Steiner Street — with Sonsini's backing and no salariesHambrecht & Quist: Bill Hambrecht on the board, and what it costHealth New England, where Ira Klein was chief medical officer — and a POC participantHewlett-Packard, and the spools of solid gold wireICON plc: the clinical-research giant on the launch-partner list — and co-author of the ARPA-H responseImpell: nuclear safety software at sixteenIn-Q-Tel: the CIA's venture unit, where Hare was a regular in RosslynIndex Ventures: the Rimer brothers, Giuseppe Zocco, and a royal chaletLōkahi, and the Hawaii health networkMD Portals, founded by Omar Salah — the ask was filed, and answered the next dayMcKinsey keeps supplying this record's rooms: a transition session, a CISO summit, and a birthday meetingMicrosoft, where I named the missing layer in 1991Milliman: the actuaries on the launch-partner list, and the MD Portals threadMohr Davidow Ventures, where I met Sue Siegel and refined Resilient's planMy ancestors owned the shipyard, and recorded it to mock the PuritansMy father debated Marxism on a sinking ferry with a man who knew Lenin and saw Trotsky killedNEA: the lead venture backer — the deal done by reunion, after ten diligence calls and ninety birthday minutesNUMMI: GM's worst workforce became its best plant — with no robots and paper cardsNavigenics, where I got to know Amy DuRoss — Agus's company, MDV's portfolioNew Native: the generative-AI innovation network on the anchor launch-partner listOne of four white children in a class of thirty, then an academy where saying ‘Gosh’ was bannedPacific Union College: it pushed them out at eighteen, and apologized through Milton at sixty-fivePalm Global: Peter Knez's Dubai chairmanship, and Palm Promax InvestmentsRaised on a clothing-optional commune, where a strawberry taught me how the network should workRamagiri · Blue Mountain Center of MeditationResilient Network Systems: Esther Dyson, the ODNI, and the IRS deploymentRevolution Health: Steve Case, Colin Powell, Carly Fiorina — and the wall they hitRobert Bass's Oak Hill: the fund that took my companySafe Health signed the ARPA-H response beside ICON, Datavant, WebShield and MillimanSea Ranch: the code that makes an ugly house impossible to buildSociété Générale's venture unit firmed a $135 million pre-money term sheet — then the decade endedStanford Graduate School of Business, class of 1992Stanford's Electronics Research Laboratory, where Hewlett and Packard visitedStrategic Planning Associates, the DC firm where I used a Xerox Star before the Macintosh existedSun Microsystems: Bechtolsheim, Joy, and the networking decadeSybase in Emeryville: where Consilient's database bench was forgedSynanon demanded the children — and Milton and Sandy walked out insteadTGV Software: the class project that opened every door afterTesseract: a mainframe company turned client-server for a 500% returnThe Atlantic: E. O. Wilson's magazine, the Aspen keynote, and now Laurene Powell Jobs'sThe E. O. Wilson FoundationThe EP3 Foundation: the 501(c)(3) where the mission's charitable channel livesThe EP3 Sustainability Fellows: ten people I have met with repeatedly and introduced to one anotherThe FDA: the agency the Trust Network kept walking intoThe Highlands Forum: technologists, complexity people and the defense-intelligence community, by invitationThe Johns Hopkins office where Mutual Assured Destruction was worked outThe Markle Foundation, and the wall the health council hitThe Markle Personal Health Technology Council: where the health-ecosystem friendships beganThe Nobel Sustainability Trust: the 2024 summit where Hare met Marcelo, and the 2025 one where Ed Russo spoke for the PresidentThe Royal Society, founded in a shelter my ancestor’s nephew createdThe Santa Fe Institute crowd: a network with no center that ran for twenty yearsThe Santa Fe Institute: Gell-Mann, Kauffman, Holland, and the coffee roomThe Sea Scouts: command of a vessel at fifteenThe Sustainable Markets Initiative: King Charles's instrument, and the door Marcelo openedThe Wallenberg sphere: what one person with standing can actually doTropical Forest Forever FacilityUC Berkeley: a 2.7 forced curve and twenty-nine Nobel laureatesUnion College, LincolnWebShield's first paying contract was $20,000 from the AMA — for a Trust Authority studyZaplet: the $90 million cousin — Sitelets' consumer-facing lookalike, described to Hare as a cheap knock-offinBloom collapsed with hundreds of millions — the salvage became parent-controlled privacy
Ideas and events

82 recorded

The arguments, the turning points, and the technical questions that keep recurring across forty years.

3040 Steiner Street: Evolve's first headquarters was a house with a fateful walk-in closetA living descendant of William of Orange told me we were familyARPANET and the Titan II silosATM versus IP: the elegant protocol that lost, and whyAccelerator tier progression — Tiers 1 to 4Berkeley forced a 2.7 average. Stanford barred recruiters from asking. Same students, opposite behaviorBix, Gold Street: the supper club where a joke nearly killed a financingBoth men who wrote Google's first cheques are in this recordConsilience: E. O. Wilson's word, and why it names thisEinstein mode: what happens when you stop optimizing for a salaryEntities in superposition: nothing merges, nothing dissolves — value collapses on measurementGoogle's top engineers told E. O. Wilson his life's wish was impossibleHeidi Klum's Halloween party: meeting Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew and Donald TrumpHuman morality has never been enough to make people behave. That is a design finding, not a complaintI bought a quarter of an aeroplane as a hedge against Stanford rejecting meI built a fallout shelter at fourteen — on a Marxist commune, with a shovel and a civil defense manualI hid inside a 65-ton cyclotron magnet my grandfather built, and read nuclear physics until darkI know the scientists who took Epstein's money. Here is what I think they were doingI named the missing layer at Microsoft in 1991. Thirty-five years later it is still missingI read every National Geographic since the 1920s in my grandmother's cold back roomI signed the clause that removed me as CEO. Two years later they used itI was a Reagan Republican when that still meant somethingIl Fornaio: Steve Jobs's dining room, and the nine-word walkoutIndian zero, Arabic algebra, Greek proof, Roman law: none of it belongs to anyoneIsaac Newton stopped counterfeiting by changing the coin, not the lawJames Bond keeps turning up in this record, and the record has stopped pretending otherwiseJames Burke's Connections is why this site is shaped the way it isMR-DIBS: the nuclear-plant resiliency test Hare applied to his own company — and the one failure mode it missedMUMS: why bringing one pioneer is worth a thousand followersMutual assured creation: the peace treaty that costs nothing to maintainMy family ran a distributed provenance ledger for 150 years, on paperMy family were missionaries. Here is the honest version of what that meansMy father named me after King David's lover, and told me exactly whyMy first real experiment was Einstein's, run on a PDP-8 at fifteenMy mother met Elvis in Germany while Bavarian aristocrats duelled with sharpened swords over herNobody has to judge you, and you don't have to judge anyonePaul Ryan was my roommate, and my job was to evict him from the master bedroomQuantum Adaptive Systems Theory: six frameworks imported wholeRadical transparency: publish the sources, not the conclusionsRecruited by USC at fifteen, and shown for the first time what real wealth looked likeRomeSkin in the game made my investor behave worse, not better — and it cost me the companySomebody has to author the genome. Here is why it should be publicSovereign Accelerators: why heads of state and royalty are in this graphSteve Jobs outbid me for the BMW Z8 — and the dealer wasn't bluffingSteve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur — the documentary whose narrators Hare says he had almost all metThe Cats: eight-foot concrete lions, a widow's refuge — and later, Doug Merritt's addressThe Consilient Angels: the people who backed it when nobody else wouldThe Consilient Governance Reserve: the subsidy that pays for good behaviorThe Consilient Innovation Network: the umbrella this whole site is an embryo ofThe Consilient Meta FirmThe Consilient Meta Fund: the fund that funds the fundersThe Consilient Nature and Humanity Trust: seventy percent of the root, for the planetThe Executive Catalyst Graph: dossiers in preparationThe Great Misunderstanding: everyone priced it with the wrong physicsThe MCP server: letting any AI read this record directlyThe Moby concert: wedged between Christy Turlington and Heidi Klum, jumping in unisonThe O'Reilly P2P Conference, 2001The Quantum Rating SchemeThe Reciprocal Fairness DoctrineThe Smith River cabin had a roof you could see through — insulation lost, stars wonThe Titan II: the missile whose silos required the internetThe UTM Premiums — Launch, Governance, and AdaptiveThe Universal Engagement Network: the channel that reaches everyone without exposing anyoneThe Universal Resource Network: use everything, surrender nothingThe Virtual Corporation (1992): the networked firm, named before its infrastructure existedThe Wall Street Journal Test: if it can't survive the front page, don't do itThe attention economy pays for outrage. This pays for what you causedThe loss of hare.comThe patent portfolio: nine filings, 2,091 claims — and the allowables that money, not examiners, killedThe story my family told itself about the people whose land it heldThe sun wastes twenty trillion times our civilization's energy, every secondThousands of rating schemes at once, so nobody owns the scoreThree family books, cross-checking each other at every marriageWestphalia ended two wars by refusing to settle the theology — and both wars are familyWhere is everybody? The essay's answer: home, which is bigger on the insideWhy capturing this network destroys the only thing worth capturingWhy insider trading can't be prosecuted away — and what actually removes itWhy the brand is Consilient, and why it should eventually disappearWhy this record is rough on purpose — and why that proves a human wrote itYou may be living in your descendants' ancestor simulation — and the essay makes the unfalsifiability a treaty“Where do our margins go?” — what Goldman Sachs asked when I showed Obama's team how to prevent the next crash
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