I think of myself as a Forward Deployed Philosopher: technical competence across a few domains, plus natural language programming (writing and posting to materialize ideas), pointed at global practical problems that carry real theoretical weight.
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.
Philosophy first. International Philosophy Olympiad laureate in high school, then graduated from the London School of Economics.
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.
Lately, prediction markets, as a novel asset class. Currently, I am in the formation phase of a new venture, which is a convergence of the work I have been doing the past decade.
Outside of that, I am:
My previous academic research at the London School of Economics centered on systemic risk: pathological contagion models, Arrow-Debreu securities, and permutations of those securities structured around swaps, which led naturally to my interest in the institutional use of event contracts. A separate strand examined the economic efficiency of the ISDA MA / CSA structure.
A Lakatosian research programme on prediction-market microstructure. An initial Thesis Manuscript was its first artifact, not the programme itself. Presented at the inaugural Kalshi Research Conference alongside Cyril Goddeeris, Toby Moskowitz and Robin Hanson. Interactive at slampaper.xyz.
Maps every company in the S&P 500 to the Kalshi event contracts pricing its key risks, each paired to its traditional-derivative analog. → hedgespx.com
As an operator, I have built products across consumer markets and financial infrastructure.
I ran Insrt Labs for 36 months across the consumer-crypto cycle: NFT financialization, onchain gacha redemption, then gamified spot-market routing. Raised $3m in external capital pre-product against 8-figures in topline spend processed. Shutdown in December 2025 after the market changed.
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. Brand ambassadors FaZe Kay and Bryce Hall; ecosystem partners included the Solana Foundation and Raydium. I was working with my close friend and Head of Growth Gritcult on distribution.
One of the first onchain gacha redemption products. Just-in-time inventory mechanism designed under capital constraint. People made money and had fun.
Yearn for NFT financialization. Fractionalization and yield-generation legos; partnerships included Metastreet (now usd.ai), Pudgy Penguins and the Berachain ecosystem.
Building the European version of dv01. A plumbing engine for securitization that we built with some of my best friends from the LSE.
Researcher. Worked on financial contagion models and the propagation of systemic risk across interconnected institutions.
Twitter highlights. Mostly prediction markets, microstructure, mechanism design, and market regimes.
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.