I'm Deven Spear. Six ventures, three decades of building things, and a few hard-won lessons that don't fit on a résumé. Somewhere along the way I picked up a habit of seeing cycles a little earlier than most. This site is where I keep the work. AI, on-chain sovereignty, real estate, and the practices that keep me standing while everything changes.
Four ideas I run on. Not advice. Just the floor I work from.
Most futurism is performance. The actual work is finding the three sentences that matter and ignoring the other ten thousand. I get it wrong plenty. I keep practicing.
Financial. Cognitive. Biological. If you don't hold the keys to all three, the conveniences eventually become the cage. I learned this the slow way.
AI alone is a feature. Wellness alone is a habit. Real estate alone is a balance sheet. Put them together and they multiply. That's where I spend my time.
The patch notes for 2030 are already shipping. The trick is reading them while there's still time to do something about it. Most people read them after.
Seven projects, seven directions. One asks whether reality is a simulation. One tracks AI week by week. One holds the line for Bitcoin. One reads the rhythm of generations across two centuries. One charts the platforms reshaping the next decade. They don’t share a thesis. They share me. This is what it looks like when one person tries to think across capital, compute, consciousness, and pattern from a single chair. The variety is the point.
What I'm reading, learning, and watching this week.
FutureFast is where I track the bleeding edge in close to real time. Curated news, learning labs, a working library. If you're trying to keep up with AI without drowning in it, start here.
Visit FutureFastBitcoin, in plain English.
Self-custody, what it actually means, and how to build a position you can hold through any cycle. Written for people who are tired of crypto-Twitter and want the actual signal. No price calls, no garbage tokens, no casino takes.
Start the pathFive platforms, one decade, $220 trillion.
An interactive walk-through of ARK Invest's Big Ideas 2026 thesis. Five technologies landing in the same window: AI, blockchain, robotics, energy storage, and multiomics. Read it as a map of where capital, compute, and capability are concentrating before the rest of the market notices.
Explore the reportThe Fourth Turning is happening on schedule.
Strauss and Howe's saeculum theory, mapped to the present. A field guide for reading the current crisis through generational archetypes. What the pattern says comes next, who shows up to lead it, and how to think about your own position before the turning resolves.
Read the cycleThe alphabet as an operating system.
An experimental design lab. What if we treated the 26 letters as primitives, the way Lego treats studs? It's a constraint-driven study of how typography itself can become interface. A working sandbox for what might come after the icon.
Open the labThe practices that keep me standing.
Wellness as infrastructure. The breath, sleep, light, and attention work that makes everything else in life run cleaner. Less performance, more of the basics that actually move the needle. I write what I practice.
Visit the practice133 lines worth keeping.
Two decades of margin notes. Quotes I've collected on philosophy, growth, and the kind of insight that survives the news cycle. Slow reading on purpose. The opposite of a feed.
Enter the archivePick a channel. I actually read what comes through.