Current affiliation: CSO at Lagrange Labs
I am usually working on interesting and immediately useful things. Please reach out if you are curious. Per usual: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.”
If you fit the description please reach out. We will find something to do together. There is an abundance of problems and a shortage of ambition and discipline.
Writing
Academic publications
Zero-knowledge technology / Cryptography
Venture capital
Media
Popular Interviews
- zkSync and the Future of Crypto: Omar Yehia, Head of Investing at Matter Labs
- TOKEN2049 London 2022: Blockchain scaling with Matter Labs, Starkware, and SKALE
- Logan Jastremski podcast: Venture capital, Bitcoin, scaling, and the future of cryptosystems
- Logan Jastremski podcast | Monad: EVM optimization, data availability, and blockchain design
- Logan Jastremski podcast | Starkware: Data availability problem, the history of Cairo, and hyperscaling
- Radix: Decentralization by default and the game of life
- Understanding FOMC with the Fed’s Joseph Tracy
- AMA with Raoul Paul | Real Vision
- AMA with Lyn Alden
Zero-knowledge / scaling technology
Venture capital
Nascent markets, tech, macro, and other things
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- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 26): Incentives matter: Why the US dominates sports
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 25): Medal roundups, bad calls: Olympic watch companion
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 24): Olympics finances are a mess
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 23): The economics of the Olympics
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 22): The case for nuclear energy
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 21): Stablecoins: Improving token velocity
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 20): Tour de France watch companion
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 19): Stockholm School of Economics studies Truflation
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 18): Enhanced Games: Allowing PEDs
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 17): Paris 2024 Olympics & poop protest
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 16): Measuring a country’s economic well being
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 15): Macron open to Wall Street buying French banks
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 14): $1.6tn Norwegian sovereign fund: Americans work harder than Europeans
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 13): Is the Nobel Prize still relevant
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 12): IEEE Spectrum’s 15 graphs that explain the state of AI in 2024
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 11): $2 trillion private international credit market: high returns, low volatility
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 10): How to endurance cross-train
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 9): Why Europe no longer innovates
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 8): AI lessons we all need to learn
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 7): The West, BRICS, and China
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 6): Technology Trends 2024 — Signal v Noise
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 5): Enshittification
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 4): What is money?
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 3): The academic industrial complex
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 2): Endurance and the long run
- Uncut (Season III, Ep. 1): Season premiere — What to expect in 2024
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- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 20): What a defiant Elon Musk means
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 19): Argentinean elections
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 18): TradFi in a digital age
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 17): Health tradeoffs as philosophy
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 16): The manic season
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 15): Greenflation
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 14): Regulation killing innovation
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 13): The remote work revolution
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 12): The isolation of the individual
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 11): Regulations and worldwide changes
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 10): Refinement in data
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 9): Malpractice in scientific research
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 8): Enhanced olympics and human performance
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 7): EthCC Paris 2023
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 6): Everflation; inflation is not going away
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 5): Incentivizing supervision over regulation
- US Inflation & CPI (Truflation) — July 2023
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 4): Hypeflation
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 3): Mergers & Acquisitions
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 2): Greedflation
- Uncut (Season II, Ep. 1): The storm which lies ahead in the Chinese real estate market
- Uncut (Ep. 21): Season finale — Sir Robert Black & Heinz Rust, the history of Hong Kong and Singapore
- Uncut (Ep. 20): LLMs and Genesis, Formula 1, and the drive to win
- Uncut (Ep. 19): Revisionist history and the monarchy, government and the duty to serve
- Uncut (Ep. 18): Consensus round up, the IMF and the state of banking, and audit insurance markets
- Uncut (Ep. 17): Boston Marathon (live), Marco Pantani and the price of glory, and the state of inflation
- Uncut (Ep. 15): Binance, existential angst, and the UFC merger
- Uncut (Ep. 14): AGI doomsday and advice to the ambitious
- Uncut (Ep. 13): The central planning problem and how to unfuck yourself
- Uncut (Ep. 12): SVB and the (predicted) fall of Credit Suisse (recorded March 15th)
- Uncut (Ep. 11): Central bank intervention and economies of scale (recorded March 9th)
- Uncut (Ep. 10): Job markets, LLM proliferation, and the morality of genetic engineering
- Uncut (Ep. 9): The sovereign debt problem, regulated markets for medicine and power, and modern portfolio theory
- Uncut (Ep. 8): Elite performance and the anatomy of a team
- Uncut (Ep. 7): Stefan’s near miss with organized crime, LLM-assisted programming, and the features of an entrepreneur
- Uncut (Ep. 6): The decline of tertiary education, the coddling of the American mind, and slap fighting
- Uncut (Ep. 5): Supplementation, on-chain data ownership, and the hallmarks of good tech
- Uncut (Ep. 4): Endurance training, the history of fighting, and reinventing the product offering
- Uncut (Ep. 3): Current market, scope of decentralization, and the network state
- Uncut (Ep. 2): Emerging markets, payment systems, decision prioritization, and digital identity
- Uncut (Ep. 1): Crypto markets and the aberration of greed
- Zad Mahana Podcast: Macro conditions and predictions
- Super Excited: Inflation, decentralization, and the republican form of government
Book suggestions (unstructured)
- training essential for ultra running
- The rise of the ultra runners
- Die with zero
- Elon musk — isaacson
- Same as ever
- Enough
- if you’re in my office it’s already too late
- Finding ultra
- The trial
- Antifragile (most important volume of Incerto, subsumes all other volumes)
- Clear thinking
- Masters of change
- The Saad truth about happiness
- Founder vs. investor
- The money culture
- moneyball
- you can be a stock market genius
- Dealmaking — the new strategy of negotiauctions
- The man from the future
- Jose Mourinho — up close and personal
- American prometheus
- cus d’amato
- i love capitalism
- the greatest trade ever
- the death of marco pantani
- how to lead
- how to invest
- buffett — the making of an american capitalist
- never finished
- onassis — the extravagant life
- michael jordan — the life
- Leading — alex ferguson