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Trading Big Bags: Liquidity, Leverage, and the Architecture of Risk

Capital size should dictate strategy. What works for a $1,000 trader becomes reckless at $10M. The recent $17M loss on Hyperliquid shows how fragile structures — high leverage, linear contracts, and concentration — turn conviction into catastrophe. This essay breaks down why efficiency, not ego, defines survivability, and how inverse contracts, venue distribution, and leverage discipline transform outcomes.

10 min read
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EVs and the Air We Breathe: From Catalytic Converters to Clean Streets

EVs are often criticised for their manufacturing footprint, but this misses the crucial point: they have no tailpipes. In cities like London, where millions of ICE cars exhale poison daily, EVs clear the air we actually breathe. They shift emissions upstream to a few factories and power plants—sites that can be regulated and cleaned far more easily than millions of exhaust pipes. Like catalytic converters before them, EVs are not perfect, but they are a vital step in reclaiming breathable cities.

7 min read
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The Inheritance of Shadows: Epigenetics, Trauma, and the Choice of Renewal

Epigenetics shows that we inherit more than DNA—we carry the echoes of our ancestors’ trauma, hunger, and resilience written into our biology. These epigenetic marks, passed across two to three generations, shape health, weight, stress, and even how we respond to the world. Yet awareness gives us agency: by confronting what we carry, we can choose healing and create a legacy of renewal for those who come after us.

15 min read
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The Distance Between Events

If time is not a river or a dimension but only the distance between events, what then becomes of us? Is a life measured by years, or by the density of change it contains? This essay traces the haunting question of time—not to answer it, but to wander through its puzzles: the minus sign in the line element, the ghost of dt, antimatter’s supposed reversal, and the possibility of a physics without clocks. Time appears less as something we move through and more as something we ourselves measure—a spacing of events that refuses ever to be final.

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