laura chavez

things i'm working on.

She spent most of her life believing she was searching for the next thing.

A new idea. A new room. A new flavour. A new company. A new story. A new version of herself.

People sometimes mistook this for restlessness.

It wasn’t.

She was collecting worlds.

She wanted to know what happened if you went down the staircase instead of past it. What happened if jewellery could float. If frozen yoghurt could become an experiment. If a dinner could become another universe. If a person didn’t have to choose one life and stay inside it.

And for a long time she wondered whether this meant she had never quite found her thing.

She had.

Her thing was wonder.

Making ordinary things feel like there might be a secret door hidden inside them.

And perhaps that was why, when her son once asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, she couldn’t give him a proper answer.

She looked at him and smiled.

Because by then she finally understood: she had never wanted to become one thing.

She wanted to remain someone for whom the world was never finished.

There was always another floor below. Another door. Another idea waiting in the dark.

and so this is not the end.

  1. lark and berry

    since 2018

    the first designer fine jeweller built entirely on lab-grown stones. the industry moved. london business school teaches the case.

  2. wafel ai

    september

    ai that actually runs your small business — built by someone who's run one.

  3. get my second brain

    in testing

    everything you know, in one place that remembers it for you.

  4. the profile

    invite only

    a dossier on everyone you meet. lives in your messages. never forgets.

  5. timesurge

    coming soon

    my sci-fi novel.

  6. authoros

    in the workshop

    the editor i built to finish timesurge. it might outgrow the book.

  7. the boundless era

    with alice

    a conversation about what comes next.

  8. alice in operaland

    just started

    hedge fund to soprano. i help manage her sometimes. we go back.

  9. snowfall

    marylebone

    frozen yogurt and kefir, no sugar. hidden beneath a jewellery shop.

  10. frozen frenzy

    mexico, since 2013

    self-serve froyo. the first one.

  11. laura's way

    n=1

    low carb, tested on my own body — glucose meter and all. one body, many experiments.

  12. bespoke

    in progress

    personalised events and games, made once, for you.