Hey, I'm Julian.
Futurist. Builder. Investor. I spend my time at the edge of what's coming next, and I've made a habit of getting there early.
Right now that means Abby, where I'm founder and CEO. Abby is an AI companion for mental health: she remembers your story, asks the questions you didn't know you needed, and matches you with a licensed human therapist when you want one. She's already had over 10 million conversations in 88 languages, and that's the warmup. The goal is real mental health support for every human on earth, all eight billion of us, at whatever hour the mind decides to get loud. It's the most meaningful thing I've ever built, and the strangest: I spent years writing essays about whether machines could ever understand humans, and now I spend my days teaching one to.
I started building young and never really stopped. Companies, products, experiments. Some worked, some didn't, and a few are used by millions of people.
Along the way I was early to cryptography, writing essays and white papers in the first wave and getting involved with a few projects you've heard of. Some of those essays are still on this blog. I'll let you connect the dots.
In 2018 I had a thesis about where automation, AI, and robotics were headed, so I started The Automation Fund and began deploying my own capital into early-stage companies, back when "automation and AI" still required an explanation at dinner parties. The thesis was simple: machines were about to start doing things everyone insisted only humans could do. The portfolio includes ICON (3D-printed houses, now a unicorn), Cytera (stem cell automation), Robomart (autonomous retail), and Abyss (deep-sea asset inspection).
And when the thesis stopped being a thesis and started being the biggest platform shift of our lifetime, I did what builders do: went back to building. That's Abby.
This blog goes back to 2013. Bitcoin, abundance, patterns, transhumanism, the future of everything, written by a younger version of me with the same brain and less evidence. I've kept every post up, original dates intact, because watching your own predictions age is one of the most honest things a person can do on the internet.
Some of it aged shockingly well. Some of it aged like milk. That's the game.
The thread through all of it, then and now: the future is built by people like you and me. It doesn't just arrive. Somebody has to build it. And every technology that matters eventually disappears into daily life, leaving behind a world that looks like magic to whoever remembers the before times.
Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. The future is coming. Build it.
– J
