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Gamma Scalping in Plain English

How market makers earn the carry on volatility, why retail rarely runs the strategy correctly, and what the math actually says about the hedge ratio you should keep.

Quant Finance 14 min read options · volatility
APR 12, 2026
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The Default Mode Network is Lying to You

A working theory on why the brain's idle chatter consistently overstates threat and understates agency — drawn from neuroscience and a year of contemplative practice.

Neuroscience 11 min read dmn · meditation
APR 03, 2026
№ 003

Observer, Observed, and the Furniture Between Them

What the measurement problem in quantum mechanics has — and doesn't have — to teach us about consciousness. A careful reading that resists the temptation to overreach.

Quantum Physics 18 min read measurement · consciousness
MAR 22, 2026
№ 004

Compounding Attention

Compound interest is well understood. Compound attention — the multiplicative effect of recovering minutes from your most-frequent attention sinks — is not.

Self-Development 8 min read attention · habits
MAR 14, 2026
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Volatility Targeting for People Who Hate Math

A walk-through of the simplest possible vol-targeted portfolio, the assumptions it secretly makes, and why it still beats most retail allocations on a risk-adjusted basis.

Quant Finance 12 min read risk · portfolio
MAR 02, 2026
№ 006

Silence as Signal

Notes on the practice of noticing what the mind goes quiet about — drawn from contemplative traditions and a quant's obsession with information content.

Spirituality 7 min read practice · awareness
FEB 19, 2026
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What Neuroplasticity Doesn't Mean

The pop-science version of neuroplasticity has overpromised. A look at what the research actually supports — and the much smaller, more tractable claim hidden inside.

Neuroscience 9 min read plasticity · learning
FEB 06, 2026
№ 008

The Small Portfolio Manifesto

Why running a deliberately small book of ideas — fewer holdings, fewer commitments, fewer open loops — produces better long-run returns than the diversification orthodoxy.

Self-Development 6 min read focus · decisions
JAN 28, 2026
№ 009

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 16 min read foundations · scale
JAN 14, 2026