Founder & CEO, Code of Nations building legal infrastructure for the AI economy.

Previously, early team at Enhanced Games backed by Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan.

Some things I think about:

• Machine-Readable Law
• AI Governance & Regulatory Policy
• Institutional Design for AI
• Mechanism Design & Game Theory
• City-States & Special Economic Zones
• Energy Systems & Infrastructure
• Synthetic Biology & Biomanufacturing
• Geoengineering & Climate Intervention
• Philosophy of Mind & Consciousness
• Political Philosophy (Ancients & Moderns)

Recent Reading

• Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
• The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon
• The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
• The City and Man by Leo Strauss
• Evening in the Palace of Reason by James Gaines
• Flashes of Thought by H.H. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
• The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis De Tocqueville
• Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan Peterson
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
• City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism by Jim Krane
• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story by Lee Kuan Yew
• City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
• Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past by J. Storrs Hall
• On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth by Bertrand De Jouvenel
• Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity by Hartmut Rosa

brandon [at] codeofnations [dot] org