A Message from the Founder

We are living through an extraordinary period of change. AI is giving us access to more information, capability and convenience than we could have imagined only a few years ago. At the same time, almost every part of life is becoming crowded with choice.

There is no shortage of advice about health.
No shortage of opinions about how to raise children.
No shortage of investment ideas, travel recommendations, experts, courses or ways to improve ourselves.

More choice does not necessarily make choosing easier.

For people who have already achieved a certain degree of success, I think the question increasingly becomes less about how to get more, and more about:

What is actually worth my time?

Which ideas deserve serious consideration?
Which people might expand my world?
Which advice can I trust?
Which experiences will still matter to me years from now?
And what kind of life am I actually trying to build?

I created CHORA to explore those questions in a practical way.

Sometimes that means bringing a small group around a table to discuss a question we rarely have the chance to examine properly.

Sometimes it means finding several credible experts and perspectives so we can understand an important subject, such as longevity, AI, our children or the next chapter of life, before deciding what to do.

Sometimes it means learning directly from someone who has spent years mastering a craft.

Sometimes it simply means entering an extraordinary place, meeting someone fascinating or having an experience we would probably never have discovered on our own.

And increasingly, I want CHORA to do something else as well: help filter the enormous world of possible solutions around us.

I do not want CHORA to recommend something simply because someone is willing to sell it. I want us to do the harder work of asking whether it is genuinely good, whether it is right for the person, and whether we would recommend it to someone we care about.

Trust has to come before commerce.

The people are equally important.

As our careers develop, most of us accumulate large networks. But a large network is not necessarily a rich one. We can spend years surrounded by people from similar professions, industries and backgrounds without often entering genuinely different worlds.

I have seen how much one person, one conversation or one introduction can change the direction of our thinking.

That is why CHORA is carefully curated. Not to create exclusivity for its own sake, but because the quality of a room changes what becomes possible inside it.

I also do not want CHORA to become a conventional networking club.

Interesting relationships rarely begin because two people were told to network. They develop because there was something worthwhile to discuss, learn, make or experience together.

My role in CHORA is Founder and Curator, but I am also very much a fellow explorer within it.

I do not have all the answers, nor do I want CHORA to reflect only my own tastes and interests. The people who become part of CHORA will bring their own expertise, questions, relationships, ideas and discoveries. Over time, I hope the community itself becomes one of CHORA's greatest sources of intelligence and possibility.

This is also why the name matters to me.

CHORA means the space between.

The space between people who might otherwise never meet.

Between a question and a possible answer.

Between knowing something and actually experiencing it.

Between the life we have built and the life that may still be possible.

CHORA is still at the beginning. I expect it to evolve considerably as we learn what genuinely creates value for the people within it.

But the conviction underneath it is unlikely to change:

Our lives are finite. What, and whom, we give our time to matters.

I hope CHORA can help make more of that time genuinely worth living.

Founder & Curator, CHORA
and a fellow explorer within it