Writing
History, economics, and philosophy have been my main reading subjects for
years, and writing is how I make sure I actually understood what I read. The
habits that produce a clean essay — choosing the right level of
abstraction, distinguishing claim from evidence, taking the strongest version
of the counterargument seriously — are the same habits I want to bring
into financial analysis, engineering work, and the kind of product thinking
that turns an insight into something worth building.
Currently reading:
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Keynes)
Essays
01
2023
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Academic essay · PDF
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5th of ~1,000 — Fraser Institute
A look at Canada’s post-COVID inflationary episode through the lens
of Hayekian monetary theory. I argue that the Bank of Canada’s
monetary response — the speed and scale of QE and the timing of the
policy reversal — produced predictable distortions in relative
prices and capital allocation, and that Hayek’s framework on
monetary disequilibrium and signal-distortion would have anticipated
several of the effects we observed.
02
2024
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Academic essay · PDF
An examination of the gap between Lenin’s stated political
programme — particularly in his late writings — and the
governance model Stalin actually implemented after consolidating power.
The essay traces several specific points where Stalin acted contrary to
Lenin’s explicit wishes, and argues that the differences amount to
a substantive betrayal rather than a continuation under different
circumstances.
Video essays
Stubs for short video adaptations of the essays above. Links will go live as each is released.
In production
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Based on: [which written essay this adapts]
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In production
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[Summary.]
Planned
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[Summary.]
Selected influences
- Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
- Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
- Niall Ferguson - Empire: How Britain Shaped the Modern World
- Pierre Berton - Vimy
- Alduous Huxley - Brave New World