Essays by Ryan Shea — co-founder of Stacks, former FDA/HHS technology advisor, now building AI research tools for biotech and investing — on AI, biotech, markets, and human progress.
Essays
Biography — The life and career of Ryan Shea — from Princeton engineering to co-founding Stacks, advising HHS/FDA on AI, and building AI research tools for biotech and investing.
Investments — Ryan Shea's featured startup investments, including unicorns like Supabase, Lattice, Mercury, Anchorage, OpenSea, and Filecoin.
Epistemology — Notes on knowledge and reason — fallibilism, critical rationalism, and why humanity's potential is unbounded.
Metaphysics — Notes on objective reality, humanity's significance as universal explainers and constructors, and the origins of the universe.
Ethics — Notes on ethics — curing the world of evils by expanding consciousness and love. A work in progress.