Me
Engineering is a primitive form of biology. We do not understand biology yet, so we work with what we can.
My goal is to help advance humanity on the Kardashev Scale and enable humans to travel beyond the solar system. Here is what I am doing, and plan to do to get there:
- Accelerate hardware innovation. Without it, we stay on Earth and cannot harness enough energy. Hanomi
- Focus on biology to buy us more time. Until biology and engineering become almost indistinguishable.
- If everything goes well till here, and humanity will need to improve space tech, I am happy to help. Hopefully, by now we will design and manufacture space stations in months, not decades.
Along the way, I enjoy kayaking, building stuff, finance, and art. :)
Step 1: Accelerate hardware
Right now, no amount of money or intelligence can buy real development speed in hardware. Iterating on a physical part still takes weeks. Iterating on software takes minutes. That gap is the single biggest brake on civilizational progress.
If we collapse hardware iteration the way software did, every other frontier opens up. Energy. Aerospace. Biotech tools. Manufacturing itself. None of those scales without faster hardware loops.
This is what Hanomi is for. The wedge is automating 2D engineering drawings from 3D models. The real product is the infrastructure layer where engineering knowledge lives. Drawings are one output of many. The mission of the company is to compress hardware iteration by 100x.
Step 2: Buy us more time
Even with faster hardware, the next set of missions takes longer than a human career. Reaching planets beyond our solar system, designing a real biology and engineering interface, climbing a meaningful step on the Kardashev Scale. All on a multigenerational clock.
Succession does not preserve mission integrity across that many handoffs. Every long lived project I have studied (Bell Labs, NASA Apollo, the Manhattan Project) decayed within a generation or two of the original team. Continuity of vision is hard.
The cleanest solution is extending the productive human lifespan. Nanotechnology applied to biology and synthetic biology are the two fields that look most likely to deliver. Both are early. Both are seedable now.
I will probably not run a lab here. I will help fund the right teams and connect them to the engineering work that supports them. Patience and capital, more than direct ops.
Step 3: Then space, if we are still on track
If steps one and two work, and humanity finds itself in the Kardashev type I region with the time horizon to take real risks, the third step is interstellar. Mars is a fuel stop. The destination is a planet with life larger than bacteria.
Encountering complex alien life is the only discovery I can imagine that forces a real reexamination of what biology is, what civilization is for, and where humanity actually fits in the universe. It is the only mission I have found that justifies the rest.
If I am still here when that work begins, I would like to help design and manufacture the vehicles that carry us. By then, if we did our job, we will be building space stations in months, not decades.
Why this order
Most space mission plans skip step one and two and go straight to vehicles. I think that is backwards. Vehicles without faster hardware are slow vehicles. Vehicles without longer lives are vehicles built for someone else to ride. Order matters.
Also, none of this is mine to do alone. The plan exists so I can be useful to people working on adjacent pieces, and so I can recognize the right opportunities to bet on when they appear.
Engineers should become inventors again.
Last meaningful edit: 31 May 2026.