Nicholas Paul

Nicholas Paul is a strategist and founder who builds organizations for original thinking at the technological frontier.

He is the founder and principal of Still Thinking, a boutique advisory firm bringing philosophical rigor to strategic questions near the frontier. Before that, he founded and led a stealth research project, convening leaders across several fields, on the metainstitutional possibilities for sustaining philosophy. For nearly a decade, he worked closely with The Long Now Foundation, serving as Director of Development and then Director of Strategy. He was the first board director at Invisible, a technology services company valued at over $2 billion, and he is currently on the founding board of the Eternity Foundation, a nonprofit restoring lost access to ancient texts.

He is an advisor to Episteme, C5R Corp, Wikitongues, and 0xPARC. He is a Fellow at Leaders In Tech, a leadership program born of the Stanford GSB, and he is currently a Fellow at The Institute, a think tank in San Francisco.

His background spans systems engineering, music, and philosophy.