Writing
I write to find out what I don't know yet.
Read on Substack → untemplated thoughts - on wildness and wonder. →
- I do the part of us that needs someone or something - more than we want to.
- Love the irrational there’s a truth in the irrational - that forgets what makes sense and remembers what it loves
- Begin again did your thoughts fall out of your head?
- Spring collection i just wish, it would last a little longer
- Urgency nothing could be more important
- March of Spring a rallying call from sirens and birdsong
more on the three monkeys.
Work
I like to build things in science, business and AI.
Working on what AI can do for new medicines. I co-founded a company to speed up drug development (still in stealth) and lead AI and strategy at de novo foundry (Novo Holdings).
LinkedIn ·Publications ·PhD thesis
The science
The secrets and beauty of our DNA.
A short CV
AI + Biology. Trained as a computational biologist.
Previously built teams in drug discovery at Intomics (acquired) and ZS Discovery.
PhD in Copenhagen with research at Stanford and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Night science
Every scientist is a bit of an artist, and every artist is a bit of a scientist.
In day science we test our ideas. In night science we dream them up.
I like the night shift. (a term from Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher.)
Read more here →, here → and a few good books on creativity in science here →
Words for living
Beginner’s mind doesn’t know what’s impossible.
What is Buddha? Three pounds of flax.
Gateless Gate, case 18 · Dongshan's Three Pounds of Flax
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn’t know you knew.
David Whyte
Living in motion
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A lifelong athlete (aspiration). My childhood and youth was on the water: raced on the Olympic Team Denmark sailing squad, with a Youth Worlds bronze; now the longer kind of endurance sports. I think and thrive better in motion.
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On thinking in motion
Where the ideas arrive: a bike ride, a long run, rarely the desk.
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Endurance and ultra-running
Running 100k ultras, suffering on beautiful mountain trails, and having fun. a few years ago →
Triathlon, a few ironmans. some more years ago →
Two wheels, on roads, trails and mountains.
Life long projects
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A friendship with silence
Zen practice. Simple, and difficult. Studying under Anshi Zachary Smith.
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Wilderness and wonder
The natural world. Wilderness and sometimes solitude as a teacher.
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Norway
Norway viscerally pulls at me: the fjords, the fjell, the people. I go as often as I can. I dream of building a small wooden cabin in the mountains.
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Growing the land
Keeping a piece of land well. Until then, WWOOFing with the family.
Say hello
get in touch - and i'll get back to you