I like thinking about systems and how to best formalize them from a market structure perspective.
How they form, why they fail, what emerges from the wreckage. Mostly I'm trying to understand information failure: who knows what, who can't know what, and what happens in the gap.
I've been a heavy reader all my life. Philosophy first — which placed me as an International Philosophy Olympiad laureate in high school. Studied at the London School of Economics with distinction.
If I had to frame what I like thinking about the most, I would call it exploring legibility, order and systems that have convexity dynamics.
Currently writing on why prediction markets will displace derivatives for binary risk.
As an operator, I have built products that have generated 8-figures in gross spend, seven-figures in fees and have, in total, acquired six-figures in activated users. As a DeFi operator, my company was one of the first to partner with brands such as Berachain and Pudgy Penguins.
Combining frontier engineering with theory to study points of failure in order, legibility, and equilibria.
A social casino with spot market interactions. Users play and win long-tail assets. A system for taking non-rotational capital and injecting it into spot markets.
A fun gambling experience for NFTs and real world assets.
Yearn for NFT financialization. We combined fractionalization and yield-generation legos for NFT finance.
Building the European version of dv01. A plumbing engine for securitization that we built with some of my best friends from the LSE.
The map is not the territory and how a map can kill millions.
Civilizational history at its best.
We all satisfice to our computational and emotional limits.
The most beautiful poetry ever written.
Patience as strategy. The revenge plot as mechanism design problem.
The topography of the history of thought.
The only thing that still annoys me is that the Terminus is the Manifold.
Beautiful, rigorous, and wrong in exactly the ways that matter.
Cosmos versus Taxis. Spontaneous order versus constructed order. The source code for everything I work on.
The biological precursor to Kantian epistemology.
Sovereignty. Friend/Foe. Which is which?
Above all, don't fool yourself, don't say it was a dream, your ears deceived you.
How institutions actually form. The state, rule of law, accountability and why most places fail to get all three.
How Lucretius got rediscovered and changed everything. Ideas have material histories.
I just want to note that I like Land non-performatively.
Whoever rules must have that iron in him. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine.
Monetary history from the people who made it. Central banking as craft, not science.
War as it actually is. The corrective to every abstraction about conflict.
Friction, fog, the continuation of politics by other means. Strategy as dealing with uncertainty, not eliminating it.
We live in a hyperreality and it is only getting more strange. A prophetic monograph.