Trader / quant lens.
For finance-industry readers who want the framework in their language.
- 01Jim Simons, Hidden Markov Models, and the Mathematics of the Present State
Renaissance Technologies and the manifestation tradition are not making different claims. They are running the same mathematical object on different inputs, and arriving at the same operational conclusion: change the hidden state, the emissions follow.
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Belief, Faith, Confidence: Trifecta of How Reality WorksBelief, faith, and confidence are three stages of one process. Each produces the conditions for the next; skip a step and the process dies. The operating manual for life.
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Be Like a Child: Why the People Who Win Don't Take It SeriouslyLife, the investment world, the contemplative traditions, and the synoptic gospels are making the same argument the self-development industry refuses to hear: the people who win at long-horizon work are the people who can take any particular instance of it lightly.
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Quitting Caffeine as a Manifestation Practice: The EEG CaseThe morning protocol depends on a specific EEG band signature. Caffeine produces the opposite one. Running both is moving the same dial in opposite directions every day and wondering why the assumption isn't landing.
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The Biology of Belief: How Cells Hear What You Believe, Power of PlaceboThe most reliably effective intervention in clinical research is not a drug, a surgery, or a procedure. It is the patient's belief. Bruce Lipton spent twenty years explaining the cellular mechanism. The Power of Placebo
- 06The 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.