Now writing · Issue 26

Slow thinking, in public.

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The autonomic nervous system, strung between activation and rest

Resetting the Nervous System

Most modern bodies run in chronic fight-or-flight. The polyvagal map, HRV as the measurable test, and reset protocols from thirty seconds to three days.

Neuroscience 15 min read polyvagal · vagus-nerve
JUN 11, 2026
The body's signal arrives before the mind's narrative does

The Body Knows Before the Mind Does

The body sends signals to consciousness before consciousness forms. The mind catches up. The neuroscience and the contemplative case for somatic knowing.

Neuroscience 13 min read somatic · body
JUN 04, 2026
Decoherence is what makes the classical world classical — the mechanism most quantum spirituality refuses to name

Decoherence Without the Mysticism

An unromantic guide to why quantum effects don't survive at human scales, and why that's the most interesting fact in physics, not the least.

Quantum Physics 15 min read decoherence · quantum
JUN 03, 2026
A quiet trading floor, the operating mode of the desk that compounds for decades

Jim Simons and the Math of the Present State

Renaissance Technologies and the manifestation literature run the same mathematical object on different inputs. Change the hidden state, the emissions follow.

Quant Finance 3 min read renaissance · simons
JUN 03, 2026
A small portfolio: few positions, sized to matter, held with the kind of belief that does not need a hedge

The Small Portfolio Manifesto

Diversification is the posture of absent conviction. The small concentrated portfolio is what belief looks like with nowhere to hide. The math of the pig.

Quant Finance 12 min read concentration · druckenmiller
JUN 03, 2026

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