Build as if the good version is possible.

I refuse to believe the most likely future is a worse one.

History, for all its horrors, points stubbornly upward.

So I’m choosing to build as though the good version is possible — because the only way to find out is to try.

To do this, I started Amend.

amend /əˈmɛnd/ verb

to put right; to change or modify (something) for the better.

The name is the job: to leave people — and the systems around them — a little better than I found them.

So the plan starts small, and human.

1. 01

   Stay genuinely connected

   Build tools that keep the real, current you in the lives of the people you love — that’s Amend iD.

2. 02

   Help good ideas find each other

   — and find the people who can actually carry them.

3. 03

   Build leverage

   Build real leverage — better tools, warmer introductions, a little momentum — and put as much of it as I can into the hands of people trying to do good, so anyone with a worthwhile idea ends up more able to act on it than they were yesterday.

4. 04

   Then compound

   One honest project at a time — each a rep that builds me into someone who might take on something larger.