Gary Levi
When I was ten years old I started buying and selling video games on eBay. Two years of late nights sourcing, curating, negotiating. I ended up with one of the most valuable sealed Nintendo collections in North America. The market boomed in 2021. I sold part of it at fifteen.
I quit one of Quebec's top private schools, moved into my own apartment, and hired tutors. Spent the next two years homeschooled to build my own curriculum.
I got into Marianopolis college then McGill Engine startup program within the same year and dropped out to co-found my first company at eighteen. Built a product that went viral in Montreal, got press coverage, generated revenue, led a team, and gave talks. Became the youngest ever accepted into one of Canada's most selective startup programs.
Then I went for something bigger.
I wanted to understand our world deeply enough to see what comes next. My take : every market, every political order, every social phenomenon emerged from the same mechanism: people reacting to environments that prior reactions had already produced. I call these human systems. I got together a small research team and built a simulation engine to model them.
This model can already simulate the reactions and outcomes of any small group in any defined environment. What comes next is to simulate our reality and predict its future.
The first working digital human system is documented here.
[The Hole Experiment]
The theoretical framework it rests on is here.
[Human Systems]
We use wind tunnels before flying planes. There is no equivalent instrument for human systems before acting in them.
The future is too important not to be prepared. We usually don’t get a second chance.
“I have wasted my time.” — Leonardo da Vinci, written in his notebook at 60.