A 2024 trauma paper found that accumulated stress leads to higher mortality. It was written about patients. Read it again and it describes founders too. If you’re carrying a company and can’t say so out loud, where do you put it?

Most consumer tech is built to eliminate cognitive friction. It gives pre-digested answers, automated summaries, and convenient consensus.

“It’s like someone is here.” A 70-year-old friend I’ll call Jane — recently home from the hospital, alone most of the day — said that about a small device on her side table. The one I built.