Scaling Meaning

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caling Meaning is a different reality to one that complies with pre-approved models & narratives.

Along this terrain, intuition & uncertainty take on very interesting profiles — they’re no longer optional, they're necessities.

But with no societal yardstick to measure the value of such an exploration, honest attempts to express it end up esoteric & vague.

Here goes nothing... as we strip back an unconventional life and bring focus to 3 elements of Zen Black.

Stories

about exploring
unknowns

Creations

reflecting skill
and taste

A Pursuit

to blend meaning
into technology

Stories

In a world where people are judged by a show of achievements, we walk to a different beat — by laying out experiences that shape a human life.
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These are tales from a road less traveled, mixing intuitive adventures, raw trips through the furnace of adversity, and uncommon insights that guided our path.

Key Life Events

This is a unique overview

Top Tweets

A curation of select thoughts

Dark & Clear (Blog)

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CREATIONS

Something special happens at the intersection of Adversity, Skill, and Taste: You find the conditions to nurture a living philosophy.

But to blend utility with meaning, you have to sit with problems longer than most, deconstruct previously unquestioned components to their essence, & realign them to infuse your values into the end result.

Here aesthetics aren't laid over the top.. they're revealed.

Startup Evolution

Mega Curations

Art

A Pursuit

Traveling under the cover of darkness, our values were the only navigation tools we possessed. They led us into absurd unknowns, but also revealed truths hidden in society's blindspot.

Our path has always been guided by values, not vision.

These tenets, creations & stories blend across time in our pursuit of infusing technology with a sense of meaning — as we head into the next unknown.

OUR 9 TENETS

into the future

Accelerating technology at all costs, without upgrading inner human faculties, puts society on a perilous course.

Civilizational advance isn’t simply about a mechanistic universe favoring greater entropyThe 2nd law of thermodynamics guiding 'accelerationism manifestos' & energy capture; it’s also about a deeper expansion through intuition, meaning & wisdom.

Reality is a confluence.. & it has purpose.

Civilizational advance isn’t simply about a mechanistic universe favoring greater entropyThe 2nd law of thermodynamics guiding 'acceleration manifestos' & energy capture, it's also about a deeper expansion of intuition, meaning & wisdom.

Accelerating technology at all costs, without upgrading inner human faculties, thus, puts society on a perilous course.

It's why our progress via markets & tech, despite immense utility, remains misaligned with human intangibles, & can't guide us to higher states of evolution.

We need something complementary to this techno advance, by creating conditions for intuitive explorers — beyond the left-hemisphere, silicon valley worldview.

Look closer, & there are fingerprints across our planet from prior epochsGobekli Tepi, Gunung Padang, and numerous other sites present compelling cases: of civilizations that merged technology & spiritual-cosmic reverence.

But here we are, unaware of the lost arcs of our history beyond a few thousand years, while stagnant in physics paradigmsChemical propulsion, Einsteinian speed limits & String theory. that can’t take us to the stars..

There’s a disconnect between our past, intrinsic truths & our map to the future.

Intrinsic truths & our map to the future.It’s partly why the progress via tech & markets, despite immense utility, can't guide us to higher states of evolution.

We need something different — complementary to a techno advance — by accelerating conditions for intuitive explorers to better navigate civilizational stalemates.

Our attention (& investment) nets have to be cast beyond the left-hemisphere, silicon valley worldview.

Zen Black will take aim at a subset of these disconnects.

The next phase of our pursuit is to:

Open up the world of Anti-Experts via high signal curations and models to synthesize across domains.
Utilize trust as a power tool for investment into people following unique pathways and/or high agency expression.

So, how did it begin?

KEY LIFE EVENTS