Published01 Institutional Research
Fee Convergence, Cost Divergence
Market analysis for professional trading desks, published under my byline. Everyone in the industry compares trading venues by advertised price. I showed that on the hardest-to-trade assets the real cost runs up to forty times higher, then put numbers on the failure risks no comparison table shows at all. It is here as the rigorous end of the range, written for readers who will check every figure.
RegisterInstitutional, sourced, argumentative · Gryps Research · July 2026 · 9 min
Published02 Explainer
A More Equitable Internet
A partnership announcement, written for people who had never heard of ICANN and did not want to. It had to explain the plumbing of the internet and why a hip hop community should care about it, in the same breath, without condescending to either half of the audience. It is here as the plainest thing in the set. Most writing that has to reach everyone fails by flattering the reader or by losing them, and the job is doing neither.
RegisterGeneral audience, technical without jargon · written for Cortex · August 2023 · 5 min
In draft03 Narrative Essay
Crossing Bifröst
A literary essay in progress, and the furthest thing here from a report. A rider saddled to a hyper-intelligent rocket crosses the rainbow bridge of Norse myth, and four failures of self-knowledge — described first in literature, inherited by the machines we built in our own image — mark the route. Posted up to its live edge on purpose, mid-conversation, because showing the work while it is still moving says something a finished piece cannot.
RegisterLiterary, image-led, technically accurate · working draft, posted to its live edge · ~1,700 words so far
May 202004 Personal Essay
Echoes In Asia
Written under Shanghai lockdown in May 2020 for the Shanghai Cacophony Society, a chapter of the prank-and-play lineage that runs back through Burning Man to 1980s San Francisco. It is a piece about dancing in an animal onesie on grass a sign forbids you to dance on, and what that does to the people watching. The original site came down; the text was recovered from the Internet Archive. It is here as the earliest dated byline in the set, and the loosest register: proof the voice existed before the ventures did.
RegisterPersonal, first-person, playful · Shanghai Cacophony Society · May 2020 · 4 min
Essay05 Conceptual Essay
The Experiment Already Ran
An argument that needs no background in either subject it is about. AI researchers worry about systems that satisfy the letter of an instruction while missing its point. I make the case that crypto spent a decade running that exact experiment in public, with real money and people actively trying to break it, and that the wreckage is usable evidence. It is here because every technical idea in it arrives through something ordinary first: a hospital, a fire alarm, a shop selling dollars for ninety cents.
RegisterHard ideas, no jargon, honest about its own limits · August 2026 · 1,900 words
In production06 Written for the Ear
Machine’s Learning
A show on new machine-learning research, written for someone curious and clever who does not work in the field. Scripts have to work out loud, which is a harder constraint than the page, because a listener cannot go back a paragraph and reread the sentence that lost them. Every idea has to land the first time or not at all. A fleet of agents I built does the scouting, drafting and production; I hold the editorial bar and decide what survives. The first eleven episodes were written three times each, at three different levels, before the show settled on one.
RegisterSpoken, for a non-specialist listener · sixty-some episodes · Plumbline
On request07 Operating Documents
Memos & Institutional Material
The documents organisations actually run on, and the largest part of my output by volume. Proposals that have to win money, memos that have to end an argument, onboarding built so a new institution knows what to do without asking. Almost none of it is public, because it was written for the people who commissioned it. The image is a positioning frame I designed for institutional members. Representative samples go out on request, redacted where they need to be.
InsideFunding proposals · Donor and partner memos · Onboarding architecture · Membership frameworks · Board and investor material · Positioning