I’ve spent the last 10 years building a platform to make research better.

To make it less lonely.

To make it more joyful.

To make rejection less painful.

At first, I thought people would jump in.

I assumed: “If I build something good—something that helps—people will just show up.”

They didn’t.

I kept building anyway.

And along the way, I learned the hardest part of innovation isn’t the tech.

It’s not funding.

It’s not even the science.

It’s belief.

Getting people to believe something new is possible…

That’s the game.

And most of us are too tired, too overworked, too skeptical, or too burned by the system to believe.

So we tell ourselves:

• “I don’t have time.”

• “I haven’t heard of it.”

• “I’m already overwhelmed.”

And those are real. I get it.

But here’s what I’ve learned:

If I want to build something that changes anything at all, it’s my job to figure out how to break through that.

Not yours.

You don’t need to believe in my platform.

But maybe this:

If something feels hard to share or grow, it’s not because people are wrong.

It’s because people are tired. Burned. Stuck.

That’s not an obstacle.

That’s the reason to keep building.

Because maybe—just maybe—someone else is quietly trying too.

And they need to know they’re not alone.