Why This Exists
I'm 26. I dropped out at 17 to help my father run Thunder Alley Cycles.
Between 2020 and 2025, 15 of 17 regional motorcycle shops closed. We survived through relationships, ethics, and refusing to give up. But my father has lived in constant agony for nearly twenty years.
A botched spinal surgery left screws boring through his spine, one drilled directly into a nerve. He woke up screaming. He's been on the legal maximum dose of painkillers ever since—drugs that don't stop the pain, just make it bearable enough to function. The opioids steal his memory, cloud his thinking, rob him of moments with my mother.
Twenty years of torture for a man who spent his life helping everyone who walked through his door. The biker who adopted every kid who needed a father figure. The man who covered repairs people couldn't afford and hugged the kid who shot our dog.
Somewhere between diagnosing death wobbles and watching my father suffer, I started seeing patterns—connections between quantum mechanics, consciousness, magnetic fields, and the human nervous system. If LEM is correct, it opens entirely new approaches to neural interfaces that could free people like my father from choosing between agony and fog.
That's worth building a quantum computing company for.
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