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Essays on technology, curation, and building a future worth navigating.

August 23, 2026

BCI Companies Are Not Selling a Device. They Are Selling a Decade of Support

6 min read

A BCI purchase is not a single transaction. It is the start of a relationship that has to last the rest of a patient's life — and most unit-economics slides never price that in.

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August 22, 2026

BCI Funding Does Not Follow One Playbook. It Follows Three at Once

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BCI sits at the intersection of hardware, biotech, and software — three investor worlds that almost never overlap. A typical cap table becomes a coordination problem long before it becomes a return problem.

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August 17, 2026

The Biggest Risk in BCI Isn't FDA Approval. It's Getting Paid for It

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Approval is the starting gun, not the finish line. A cleared implant that hospitals lose money on doesn't fail loudly — it just quietly never gets used.

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August 10, 2026

The Clinical Trial Model Wasn't Built for a Therapy That Is Different in Every Patient

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A working BCI decoder is retrained for each patient. That is the product doing its job — and the reason a classic randomized trial quietly stops fitting.

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July 29, 2026

How to Spot Fake Investors in Brain-Computer Interfaces

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BCI is heating up fast — and that heat attracts people who look like investors but behave like something else. A field guide for founders who can't afford wasted cycles.

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July 17, 2026

Why Decoder Drift Might Be the Biggest Commercial Problem Nobody Talks About

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Most BCI demos look impressive because they're short. Decoder drift is what happens weeks and months later — and it's where otherwise promising systems quietly fall apart.

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July 10, 2026

The Next Neuralink Won't Win Because of Better Electrodes

5 min read

Neural interface hardware is converging. Once several platforms can reliably pull meaningful signal from the brain, the bottleneck moves from recording to interpretation — and the real advantage becomes the data flywheel.

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March 18, 2026

BCI Funding Hit $1.15B in 2025. Where Are All the Early-Stage Founders?

4 min read

BCI venture funding hit record highs in 2025 — but capital is concentrating at the top while early-stage founders remain scattered and hard to find.

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