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working notes, reading lists, and half-formed ideas. nothing here is finished. consider everything a living document. i update these as i learn new things.

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For mech interp: Superposition and polysemanticity, Why mech interp matters
For AI + economics: AI will make economists of us all, AI governance reading list
For markets: Prediction markets are underrated, Crypto as financial infrastructure
For EA: EA and expected value
For economics: Productivity growth is everything, The impossibility of 75-year forecasts

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Notes on superposition and polysemanticity (modified: Dec '25)
Why mechanistic interpretability matters (modified: Nov '25)
AI governance reading list (modified: Feb '26)

AI will make economists of us all (modified: Feb '26)
Productivity growth is everything (modified: Jan '26)
The impossibility of 75-year forecasts (modified: Sep '25)

Prediction markets are underrated (modified: Oct '25)
thoughts on the efficient market hypothesis (modified: Sep '24)
market microstructure matters more than you think (modified: Sep '24)
Crypto as financial infrastructure (modified: Apr '25)
perpetual futures changed crypto (modified: Apr '22)
notes on perpetual swaps (modified: Mar '22)
why information wants to be priced (modified: Aug '21)

mechanism design reading list (modified: Jan '23)
notes on market design (modified: May '20)

venture capital and the misallocation of talent (modified: Jun '24)
schlep blindness (modified: Dec '22)
what founders actually learn (modified: Sep '22)
doing things that don't scale (modified: Mar '21)

2 mistakes when valuing time (modified: Mar '24)
salary negotiation notes (modified: Jan '24)
specific knowledge (modified: Oct '20)
compounding and patience (modified: Dec '19)

EA and the discipline of expected value (modified: Aug '25)

Three types of technical debt (modified: Oct '25)
Monoliths are fine, actually (modified: Aug '25)
The YAML trap (modified: May '24)

Feature requests are hypotheses (modified: Dec '25)
Attention as the only real currency (modified: Sep '25)
The art of shipping increments (modified: Mar '25)

Cities as interfaces (modified: May '25)
On legibility and illegibility (modified: Jan '25)
Feedback loops everywhere (modified: Nov '24)

The perfect cup of chai (modified: Jul '25)
My moving-cities checklist (modified: Jun '25)
books that actually changed how I think (modified: Apr '25)

learning in public (modified: Mar '23)
why a digital garden (modified: Feb '23)

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