Welcome to my world

The moment we stop being curious about each other is the moment we lose our humanity.
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THE ARCHIVES

I’ve climbed things I had no real business climbing, jumped off a bridge with nothing but a cord and bad judgment to hold me up, and flown through fjords in a plane too small to fully trust and too high up to leave. In between, I’ve co-founded a couple of companies that look nothing alike and aim at the same thing: being useful to the world. I wouldn’t trade any of it for the version of this where I followed a predesigned path. I suspect you’re also wondering what goes on in the head of someone like this. This site is where I put the answers I have so far (and the questions I don’t).

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Gratitude

Acknowledgements

Jess is supported by an incredible group of collaborators. This work has been curated by a community which offered up opinions, time, and curiosity.

Thank You All

“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Paulo Freire