Finance
The financial system beyond the banks
Money moves through more than banks. A closer look at the less visible networks that connect savings, credit, and the real economy.
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Writing
Ideas worth thinking through.
Notes on finance, technology, markets, engineering, and whatever else I find worth writing about.
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09 essays & notes
Technology
Good systems start with good boundaries
Before queues, caches, and distributed everything, there is a simpler question: where does one responsibility end?
Field notes
Learning to read a city
A walk without a destination, and a few observations about the systems hiding in plain sight.
Markets
A price is a conversation
What a market price tells us—and all the things it leaves unsaid.
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Personal
On paying attention
A short note on making room for an unfinished thought.
Systems
Why simple models still matter in a world that refuses to be simple
A model does not need to contain the whole world to help us understand one small part of it. The challenge is remembering what we chose to leave out, and when those omissions stop being harmless.
Technology
Latency is a product decision
Waiting changes how software feels. Start measuring from the other side of the screen.