James Sackl

Melbourne founder. Wallace Biotechnologies & Terraform Technologies. Writer behind the Golden Age.

James Sackl, Melbourne founder of Wallace Biotechnologies and Terraform Technologies, in a black leather jacket, arms crossed, against a soft cream backdrop.

James Sackl is a Melbourne-based founder. He is currently building Wallace Biotechnologies and Terraform Technologies from Cremorne, Victoria, and writes long-form essays on thinking, execution and building under the Golden Age banner. About James Sackl.


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Testing Too Cheap to Metre

A $39 blood test is 60 cents of chemistry wrapped in $38 of paperwork. Strip the human wrapper with a lab that runs itself and routine tests drop 30 to 60 times, down toward tens of cents.

How to Build Homes 10x Cheaper

A house that costs $500,000 to build can be done for $69,000. No breakthrough required, just machines that exist today, hundred-year-old chemistry, and maths you can check yourself.

Staring Into the Abyss

The thing you're dodging is sizing you up the whole time you dodge it. Believe the dial, not the feeling in your gut.

Confidencemaxxing

You don't wait around to feel it. You decide it. Confidence shows up late, a bit embarrassed it doubted you.


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Wallace Biotechnologies

Biotechnology to enhance humanity and our environment.

Wallace Biotechnologies develops technologies to harness biology to enhance human health and our environment. Alongside Wallace Biotechnologies Health, a global healthcare system aimed at extending the health span of every human.

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Terraform Technologies

Harnessing free fusion energy (the sun) to produce cheap resources at scale, anywhere.

Terraform Technologies harnesses fusion reactors to produce cheap resources at scale. Named for the Kardashev classification of a civilisation that commands all the energy of its planet.

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