Humans drew boundaries between fields for convenience but they carry a creative cost. Breakthroughs emerge when unexpected ideas collide. Because art and science are different dialects of the same universal language, we value people who move fluently across disciplines.
In San Francisco, capital is abundant and real friendship is scarce. The lone-genius myth distracts from how great work actually happens: through small alliances of the best people of their time. Think Jobs and Wozniak or Lennon and McCartney; Nautilus is where you meet the people you'll build with, and where those collaborations become lifelong friendships.
Our community is small, conviction-driven, and obsessed with detail. We pick fit over headcount and depth over hype. We write our own playbooks for how we host, build, learn, and live – and we help others do the same.
In a world where optimization wins, we create rooms where curiosity leads. Here, rigor includes play, beauty, and the courage to take intellectual and creative risks.