What I’m Doing Now
Updated Oct 7th, 2025, from Chicago.
The Jailbroken Guide to the University
- Been obsessed with The Jailbroken Guide to the University for almost two years. Almost done with the first draft. Read the intro here.
- If you want to read an early version and provide your thoughts/feedback, let me know.
- At first, I thought I would put the book online on a really cool website, but a mentor has suggested trying to find an agent and going into the traditional route. I've reached out and done the work, but not much luck. If you have pointers, please let me know
- So excited!!!!!! Every morning, every day, I wake up thinking about it.
What else
- I’ve been thinking a lot about what jailbreaking actually is: the practice of identifying the rules, incentives, and assumptions built into imaginary, socially constructed systems. Education, society, the economy, and politics, and using that knowledge to become fully alive.
- Finance works the same way in practice: you design convincing narratives and mechanisms that mobilize other people’s capital, creating leverage and returns. The cycle depends on collective belief and on taking and managing risk. Risk and imagination. Imagination and risk. How do you turn imagination into belief? What a fascinating question!
- Therefore, my next book will be: How I Jailbroke Finance: The Story of How I Became a Trillionaire.
- Law is also the same: the formalization and enforcement of collective agreements. What is not (as constructed)? Physics.
- I've been reading a few books like Barbarians at the Gate and Liar's Poker and going to US District Court hearings, talking to judges, and understanding how it all works, its similarities, etc.
- Went to Madison for the first time and it was pretty cool. I made this short movie about it: Reads means go.
- Today is Yo-Yo Ma’s birthday, as well as María Corina Machado's, Niels Bohr's, and a little-known Russian political leader.
Ciao
Ciao, ciao, ciao!
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