Essays

Long-form · 2,500–8,000 words

Extended arguments in policy journals. Research-grade, cited, and written for readers who want the full case.

Illustration · American Affairs
American Affairs Summer 2025

Building the Builders: A Workforce Development Strategy for the AI Economy

Reindustrialization requires a workforce strategy to match. The apprenticeship model, in which apprentices are employees from day one, delivers a $144 return for every $100 invested. It is the paradigm American small and medium manufacturers need to train the next generation at the speed of innovation.

American Compass September 2025

An Industrious Workforce for the AI Decade

America is rebuilding its industrial capital base; now it must reindustrialize its workers. A blueprint pairing refundable training credits, streamlined apprenticeship paperwork, and procurement preferences for skills-first vendors, starting with startups, where the needs are most acute.

Op‑eds

Short-form · 800–1,200 words

Short pieces in the national and international press. Written to move a specific policy conversation a specific direction, not to rehearse the whole thesis.

Stylized profile with glowing industrial circuitry, illustration accompanying the NZZ op-ed on Swiss AI founders.
Illustration · Simon Tanner / NZZ
NZZ March 2025

The Next OpenAI or DeepSeek Could Come from Switzerland

Switzerland has world-class AI research and the second-densest AI engineer population in Europe, yet 86% of venture investment in Swiss startups originates abroad. The gap isn't talent. It's ambition, founder presence, and a willingness to incorporate where global capital sits.

Talks & interviews

Public conversations

Moderated discussions and public conversations. Indexed with prep notes and follow-ups where available.

Institutions

Talk2026
Moderated conversation 2026

Innovation Is Built on Trust: In Conversation with Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen

A discussion with the longest-serving Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, the portfolio that launched the James Webb Space Telescope, on mentorship, mission doctrine, and turning trust networks into institutions.

Recording forthcoming Notes on request

In progress

Drafts & early work

Work we're actively developing, shown for transparency. Status reflects the piece's current state, not a publication guarantee. Collaborators and venues are listed where confirmed.

Workforce

Draft · v4.72026
Venue TBD Draft · 2026

America Is Filling Up with Machines Nobody Knows How to Fix

The workers who could fix the next generation of industrial robots and automation systems are already out there. No title, no credential, no clear path from where they are to where they're needed. A field engineer's view of the chrome-collar workforce problem.

Draft Not yet public

Institutions

Ideation2026
Atlantic · Nat'l Affairs Ideation

The Polymath America Can't Afford Anymore: What Happens When the Patent System Stops Protecting Inventors

Federal procurement rules treat inventor-advisors as conflicts rather than assets. The result: America loses access to the people best positioned to tell it what to build, and to the intellectual property those people created.

Ideation Not yet public

Alliances

Ideation2026
Foreign Affairs Ideation
Workforce Alliances

Training the Mittelstand: Small & Medium Manufacturers in a Multipolar Industrial Order

German, Swiss, and Austrian SMEs train their workforces through dense regional apprenticeship networks. Those networks are the reason their industrial bases hold together under strain. What an American analogue would require.

Ideation Not yet public