Me → I grew up in Texas (Cowboys forever) and spent my teen years playing lacrosse and trying to figure out why people are the way they are. I was obsessed with the show House MD...it was the first time I noticed that what makes someone great is usually the thing that everyone wants them to fix.

I wanted to keep pulling at the tension between what’s in our control and what isn’t, so I studied neuroscience and philosophy. Researching the mechanisms behind anxiety disorders and teaching philosophy in prison taught me two things: our personalities are more fixed that we think, but our state of mind is more in our control than we realize. I still think about both when I meet founders.

Later, I spent a few years doing computational neuroscience and clinical trials. What stuck with me the most was how well the brain makes good decisions with bad information. A figure skater can land a triple axel on a sliver of steel even though her eyes, inner ears, and muscles are sending her imprecise, slightly delayed, sometimes contradictory reports about where her body is. The brain doesn’t wait for certainty, and I have never wanted to either.