Writing
The research is out and citable. The books are not finished, and I'd rather say so than imply otherwise.
Peer-reviewable research · SSRN, 2025
A 19-year operating study, published with a DOI and open to scrutiny, documenting how a small-group tour operator retains more than 70% of guest spending inside the communities it works in. It sets out the three structural mechanics behind that number: zero commissions, hard volume caps, and only locally-owned family partners.
Read the paper →Series · 12 parts
How a seventeen-year-old from the Hollywood Hills ended up in a one-room house in Calabria, and why he went back for good eighteen months later. The long version of the story the About page compresses into five paragraphs.
Start at part one →Three of them, at different stages, none of them done. If you’re a publisher, an agent, or a podcast host who wants to talk about one before it lands, the contact page works.
In progress
The book-length treatment of the research. What the paper argues in academic register, aimed at the operators and destinations who have to actually implement it.
In progress
Why Every Generation Fights the Future, and What the Winners Did Instead
Every generation meets its disruption by defending what it already built. I watched it happen from the inside in 1999, when I was the one on panels saying the valuations were insane. The same reflexes are running right now around AI. This is the pattern, and what separated the companies that survived from the ones that were certain they were safe.
In progress
Los Angeles, money, and a run of funerals. Then Italy. Working title withheld until it stops changing.
The concept has its own home at existentialsustainability.com, which is where the framework, the paper, and the ongoing work around it live. This page is just the author’s shelf.