Pass on more than
what you own.

As a parent, there are things I want to help my children understand: how to think through difficult choices, how money and businesses work, how to recognize opportunity, and how to act with care and responsibility.

Some of that happens naturally through everyday life. Some takes deliberate teaching, practice, and conversations repeated over years.

Other people can bring extraordinary care and wisdom into our children’s lives. Yet the particular combination of experiences, convictions, and lessons we hope to share is personal. Unless we make the effort to capture it, much of it may remain only in our heads.

Working with allocations, unit economics, and software has shaped how I think about choices: where resources go, what each decision costs, and how an idea works in practice. Those are some of the lessons I want to make easier for my children—and others—to explore.

Alloconomy is my attempt to give that learning a form others can return to, question, and build upon—and to develop tools that can help more people share what they have learned, especially with children.

Stories across cultures explore how one person’s influence can continue after they are gone.

For me, K. V. Anand’s Maattrraan (opens in a new tab) brought that possibility into focus. I see in it a reminder that the books someone valued, the ideas they explored, and the principles they lived by can continue to shape another person’s life.

Other films approach the same question from different directions. In Coco (opens in a new tab), music and family stories connect a young boy with generations he never knew. In Onward (opens in a new tab), two brothers long for another day with their late father—a story inspired by director Dan Scanlon’s own experience of discovering a brief recording of his father’s voice.

These stories make something deeply personal visible. We want our children to have access to who we were: what we understood, what we struggled with, what mattered to us, and what we hoped to teach them.

Alloconomy begins with the possibility of preserving some of that deliberately. An idea can become an explanation. An explanation can become a learning experience. And that experience can remain available for someone we love to explore, question, and make their own.

This begins with my own experience and what I hope to share with my children. The larger vision is to build a scalable tool that helps other parents, educators, and creators turn their own knowledge and experience into learning that can reach others, especially children.

The platform is still developing. Its early products are steps toward that ambition.

No platform can replace a parent’s presence or determine who a child will become. Children need room to question what we teach, discover their own interests, and reach conclusions we might never have imagined.

What we can do is leave something thoughtful for them to engage with—and begin sharing it while we are here.