Articles
Essays, research notes, and visual experiments collected over the years, filed by category — from inventory control to mathematical side paths.
Article Series
How value chains evolve: where the cost hides, who ends up owning the bottleneck, and what changes when the cost of a thing falls toward zero — money is the worked example.
The Law · Jun 14, 2026
Every value chain is the path a human want travels from unmet to met, and at every link sits a cost. Chains evolve by selection: the cheaper, faster way of serving the same want survives and becomes the next link. The want is the constant; cost is the agent of change; the rent always relocates to whichever cost has not yet fallen — including, at the end, the human ones.
Read articleThe Evolutions · Jul 11, 2026
Fourteen industries did not travel through the same three stages. This is an evolutionary atlas of the routes they actually took—from knowledge and music to food, money, transport, and virtual worlds—and where each stands in 2026.
Read articlePart I · Jun 04, 2026
How reserve currencies evolve, why dollar power has really been payment power, how dollar-pegged stablecoins quietly became the rails that value moves on, and why Bitcoin's price collapse is beside the point.
Read articleCompanion · Jun 05, 2026
The transaction cost of money never disappeared — banks hid it in the yield you forgo on a zero-rate deposit, brokers in the order flow they sell, payments in the float. How on-chain rails are dragging that hidden rent into the open, and why the incumbents are fighting to keep it buried.
Read articlePart II · Jun 05, 2026
For all of history we held money because turning what we own into what we can spend was slow and costly. Tokenization and on-chain settlement are making that conversion nearly free — and machines are starting to do it for us. What happens to money when the act that defined it stops costing anything?
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Algorithms that learn to decide — stochastic optimization, evolution strategies, and reinforcement learning applied to real operational systems.
Jun 07, 2026
A single gradient-free recipe — CMA-ES optimizing small, interpretable policies — learns to control inventory systems across ten classical problem families.
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Short mathematical side paths and visual experiments, followed for the joy of the detour.
Oct 06, 2023
Oct 06, 2023
A pi-generated visual field of orbits, pulses, and digit rhythms.
Read articleSep 03, 2022
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The academic record — where my research has been, where it is heading, and how I think about teaching.
Dec 13, 2021
Where my research has been and where it is heading — optimization, learning, and decision systems under real-world constraints.
Read articleDec 12, 2021
Learning and Teaching Philosophy
Read articleNov 21, 2021