Family

I’ll miss bedtime stories next week. Not because I love the 75 events in my calendar at Davos, but because I’m carrying something personal with me. My kids are growing up in the EU, in Denmark, where safety, nature, and independence are built into everyday life. That kind of childhood isn’t magic. It’s the result of decades of public investment, data, and care. For most of the world, that model has simply been out of reach. At LGND AI and Clay we’re building extremely horizontal planetary intelligence: tools designed to understand the world at scale. Child infrastructure, air quality, climate risk, food security, disaster response. This is just one possible use. ...

My paternity leave has easily been among the hardest things I’ve done. It’s also, without doubt, the most meaningful and rewarding things I’ve done. Far from a “nice long vacation” as someone told me, it’s been fully a deconstruction and reconstruction of so much of myself. The more I reflect on it, the more I realize both things: It is hard (and thankfully it’s getting easier) and it’s also rewarding (increasingly so). I also realize now it was crucially important not only for me, but for the baby, my wife, and for the whole family. Research (links below) has shown the extraordinary and literally lifelong impact of paternity leaves (specifically dads, besides maternity leaves). ...