“Not all those who wander are lost.”
— by J.R.R. Tolkein from [The Riddle of Strider](https://allpoetry.com/poem/15995581-The-Riddle-of-Strider-by-J-R-R-Tolkien)
A career that moves from enterprise data science to cloud platforms to blockchain to cryptography to venture capital does not follow a straight line. But the through-line is curiosity: each step was driven by asking what comes next rather than what is expected. The chronological archive shows how these chapters connect, even when they did not seem to at the time.
Tolkien wrote this about Aragorn, a king disguised as a wanderer. The point is that purpose and direction can coexist with exploration. Not every detour is a wrong turn. Some of the most valuable insights in my career have come from working across disciplines, from AI and knowledge graphs to decentralized randomness, precisely because those fields were not adjacent in any obvious way.