About
What if your plans depend on an illusion that you know more than you do? What if the real problem isn’t that things are getting worse, but that you’re navigating with an outdated map or following someone else’s directions? I believe these are questions worth asking—and that a robust culture of inquiry, legitimate adversity, attentive optimism, and insatiable curiosity are essential to innovation, personal growth, and collective flourishing.
The name Domo Futu fuses domo, from the Latin home and the Japanese gratitude, with futu, meaning future. This neologism reflects my sincere belief that the future isn’t simply some preordained destination to be feared, lamented, or taken for granted, but something to mindfully build—one choice at a time—informed by aesthetics, curiosity, deep historical fluency, and (hopefully) the frequent discovery of error, because being wrong is just one glorious and essential step toward being less wrong.
This project is personal. Just me engaging with big ideas—from philosophy and evolutionary biology to economics, art, and technology—that shape and reveal the world. I’m not offering conclusions but exploring possibilities, seeking to break down and synthesize complex ideas, simply to do it again when the territory changes. As such, evolution, effective competition, and creative problem-solving are some of my favorite tools for understanding, because I believe that survival—whether of ideas, individuals, species, or systems—depends on continuous adaptation.
Along the way, I am excited to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of others, with the knowledge that each innovation adds to a shared pool of knowledge and success.
To paraphrase Derek Parfit in his fascinating book, Reasons and Persons:
“I have learnt much… from reading the writings of… many other people. Some of my debts I acknowledge in the endnotes… But I am certain that, because of my weak memory and failure to make proper notes, this [blog] presents, as if they were my ideas, many claims or arguments that I ought to attribute to some source. These forgotten sources, if they read this… will be rightly aggrieved.”
In a transparent, dynamic process, I will keep testing conventional (and, not-so-conventional) wisdom—rejecting outdated maps and following an ecosystem where only the fittest ideas survive—where I push to keep thinking critically, discarding what doesn’t work, and refining my understanding as I go.
If you are curious about a great many things, then, I hope the content here provokes your thought, compels you to discussion, and leads you to discovery.
So, what outdated maps are you still using, and how has the territory changed?
Let’s find out.
