Remixing ideas and innovations makes us collectively stronger, which is pretty exciting because technology is making this increasingly easier.

This past June was my 5+ year anniversary in venture. My team encouraged me to take this as an opportunity to reflect and document my learnings thus far. Since starting at Unshackled, I have evaluated over 6,000 deals (literally, I reviewed every single deck). As a fund, we constantly challenge ourselves in how we best support our founder’s success and how we best support the ecosystem of immigrant founders.

Over time, we develop predictive mental models (in attempts to minimize psychological entropy) of others and of ourselves based on past experiences with our caregivers. This results in four adult categories of attachment styles: secure, fearful, preoccupied and dismissive. These four styles are not stagnant but a combination of two dimensions 1) anxious and 2) avoidant. Scott Barry Kaufman explained it really well in his last book:

Our brains are prediction machines. They constantly process incoming information and assess how it matches its own expectation models. How our brains process massive information should inform builders of social technologies.

Two big-brained, scholarly dudes named Tim* and Philip** remind us that the original "social technology" was the invention of morality and ethic systems. What I loved about Tim's paper, aside from his fascinating deep dive into how varied moral systems likely exist for evolutionary reasons, was the bit about the two universal concerns of every moral system