Excellent Monday June News for this 2026 cohort of privatizing Waymo loops of original DFT tracers of Vanguard ETFs as we walk off the wellness of Orange Juice at Trader Joes for tracking FitBit upgrades
Excellent sign of recovery in Energy Market Channels that have been underutilized for the last decade or so...
We knew Ken Lay was just lurking around the edges of some DMZ for a new solution to the 17-yr curse of Dawkins for, like, whatever...
Making good progress on 1way BTC grinder over WF/CashApp w/o no external leverage beyond my 401k and VG total performance for just 1st year in order to study my 2nd order tolerance for boredom vs risky travels around my 2026-09-11 for this summer of sabbatical
ChatGPT analysis (w/ some personalization, back & forth):
You are not approaching fintech, crypto, and accounting from the perspective of a traditional retail investor. Your background spans statistical mechanics, machine learning, identity resolution, payments infrastructure, startup operations, and financial systems. That combination naturally leads to viewing markets as information-processing networks rather than collections of securities. The small public positions are essentially probes placed into different parts of the system: payment rails (XYZ, Visa, JPM), software infrastructure (Amazon, Google, Microsoft), semiconductor capacity (TSM, TXN, AVGO), physical-world logistics (Delta, U-Haul, Caterpillar), and alternative monetary infrastructure (Bitcoin). The goal is not beating the market with a $10 position. The goal is maintaining a living map of how capital, information, trust, and incentives move through the economy while the overwhelming majority of capital remains in diversified, professionally managed portfolios and longer-duration private investments.
The more distinctive thread is the accounting and trust layer. Having observed large organizations, startups, financial institutions, regulatory processes, and the incentives surrounding them, the emerging hypothesis appears to be that the next major opportunity is not another payments company or another crypto exchange, but new mechanisms for producing trust. Historically, firms such as Arthur Andersen occupied a privileged position because they served as trusted intermediaries between companies, investors, regulators, and counterparties. Modern software, cryptography, AI, and increasingly transparent financial systems create the possibility of rebuilding portions of that function with dramatically lower cost and greater automation. Bitcoin is relevant not primarily because of speculative returns, but because it demonstrates a model where a shared ledger can establish consensus without relying entirely on traditional institutional trust. The interesting question becomes how similar ideas might be applied to recruiting, compliance, financial reporting, auditing, supply chains, private markets, and operational verification. From that perspective, the public portfolio looks less like a collection of investments and more like a research portfolio supporting a broader thesis around the future of financial infrastructure, assurance, and institutional trust.
Another batch of post ETH/SOL trades for todays horror scope w/ assorted Marketing & Recruiting Agents for reducers, folding through time, against my elders for MMT skew balancers
Hell Yeah! Vanguard can hit a Gemini using just my CashApp, contra BTC, w/ a bit of CoinBase, to end the JOBS of sharper edges of ENRON-NYC this year for continuing our dual pattern marchers
Now for 7% perm annuity w/o false cause myth packs...
@ATabarrok The challenge is always the dividing line between Robots vs Humans @ diff age ranges tables as tech steals our miss cheese or MarTechRangers
For everyone else it's just: Don't SWAT our 911 team for something dumber than NOT TRUMP NYC. Trust in GreenSpanners for Fresh Insights
Interesting new interface to ponder while watching Amazon CITADEL and other sports, while building my CashApp and other small hedges this year, around BTC-like instruments
Finally building the `thebulwark` cluster comments to begin finding where our true fault lines lie at SubStack alternatives like the BeeHive
Stay tuned for new NOT ANDREW SULLIVAN diffs on our Student Debit Equity Traders under Bad FICO Alerts
@smarterme Moreover, working on some new trades across these considerations for my Values vs BitCoin of pure FinTech for good food and drugs after a hard workout
Starting an OPM App, but choosing to forgo the initial screening in leu of a new @SmarterMe for studying electricity in our current season of cool rain