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A practical guide to the journey of publishing a book, from where to write and how to lay out your workspace, through planning, style and typesetting, to choosing platforms and launching, with an optional section on using AI along the way.
4 essays published in November 2026. See the publication calendar.
A working record of tools and setups for reading markets, written so every entry can be repeated.
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A figure renderer, a reworked Valeon and a much larger Galley, the machinery built since September; why my books came down, and two new ones made to the same standard, The Perceived Universe and Understanding Market Mechanics.
A number plate I read as "tensor", and the object it named, a thing whose meaning survives a change of viewpoint. From scalars up to the Christoffel symbols, the geodesic equation and curvature, then back to what machine learning means by the word.
A Tool for one question, whether the side that has been winning is still winning, read from the bar, the Heikin Ashi run and the swings. Both swing rules are calibrated on crypto and on a century of the S&P 500, and walked through bitcoin's 2021–22 range.
A derivatives panel any free TradingView account can build, the perpetual with its premium and open interest read against spot, for one question: is this move being carried by spot or by leverage? Calibrated on three years of data and walked through ether's crash of 10 October 2025.
In a journey through memory's fog, I revisit a misty meadow where hope glimmers, reflecting on loss and the shadows of what once was, seeking solace in the beauty of the past despite the lingering ache of forgotten grief.
Changing the world requires a powerful kind of delusion — the courage to believe in the unknown despite overwhelming certainty, as history’s greatest minds demonstrated by pushing the boundaries of knowledge while remaining blissfully ignorant of the full extent of their discoveries.
Essays worth starting with.
Ledgers, often seen as dull and straightforward, are critical in finance, and the rise of digital money revealed the need for a truly decentralized ledger—ushered in by Bitcoin—which eliminates the traditional keeper and raises new questions about trust and verification in our economic systems.
Realizing that judgment is unavoidable shifts the focus from fear of criticism to the empowering act of choosing for oneself, revealing what you are capable of regardless of others' opinions.
The early universe's energy densities reveal a dramatic geometric reality, challenging our understanding of spacetime and exposing the limits of familiar concepts as they intersect with the extreme conditions of the universe’s birth.
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In a journey through memory's fog, I revisit a misty meadow where hope glimmers, reflecting on loss and the shadows of what once was, seeking solace in the beauty of the past despite the lingering ache of forgotten grief.
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A figure renderer, a reworked Valeon and a much larger Galley, the machinery built since September; why my books came down, and two new ones made to the same standard, The Perceived Universe and Understanding Market Mechanics.
A Tool for one question, whether the side that has been winning is still winning, read from the bar, the Heikin Ashi run and the swings. Both swing rules are calibrated on crypto and on a century of the S&P 500, and walked through bitcoin's 2021–22 range.
A derivatives panel any free TradingView account can build, the perpetual with its premium and open interest read against spot, for one question: is this move being carried by spot or by leverage? Calibrated on three years of data and walked through ether's crash of 10 October 2025.
Open interest, funding, basis and liquidation figures each count something narrower than they appear to. A reference guide to what derivatives data measures and how it misleads, read through three days of ether between 2021 and 2022.
Discover the untold story beneath price charts by focusing on volume bars—the true measure of market participation that reveals whether a price movement genuinely matters or is just noise.
