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The InDecision Framework: How I Built an 82.5% Accurate Market Predictor

Seven years of trading data. Six factors. One framework that removes emotion from the equation. Here's how InDecision works — and why it outperforms gut instinct every time.

February 18, 20268m read
Crypto

Why Most Traders Never Improve: The Psychological Blind Spot That Keeps Smart People Poor

Smart traders lose for a specific reason: they can't tell the difference between skill and luck after the fact. Here's the cognitive bias that makes improvement nearly impossible — and how to break it.

February 16, 20268m read
Crypto

The Dopamine Loop: How Crypto Markets Are Engineered to Exploit Your Brain

Crypto is the most sophisticated dopamine machine ever built. Understanding the neuroscience isn't optional — it's survival.

February 14, 20267m read
AI

Superintelligence Won't Look Like Terminator — It'll Look Like You, But Sharper

Hollywood gave us the wrong threat model. The real danger of AGI isn't killer robots — it's billions of humans thinking the same thoughts at the same time.

February 12, 20266m read
AI

AI Is a Force Multiplier, Not a Replacement: The Engineer's Perspective

After 16 years building distributed systems and leading engineering teams, here's my honest take on where AI sits in the stack — and what it actually means for your career.

February 10, 20266m read
AI

The Psychology of AI Resistance: Why Smart People Fear the Tool That Would Make Them Irreplaceable

Engineers who refuse AI aren't protecting their craft — they're protecting their ego. Here's the neuroscience behind why expertise makes you more resistant, not less.

February 10, 20267m read
World News

The Architecture of Deception: How Modern Geopolitics Exploits Cognitive Bias

State actors don't fight wars in the open anymore. They fight in the information space — and they're winning because they understand your cognitive biases better than you do.

February 8, 20267m read
World News

Taiwan, Chips, and the Psychology of Strategic Ambiguity

The Taiwan situation is the most consequential geopolitical risk of the decade. Most people misread it as ideology. It's actually about who controls the foundational technology of the AI era.

February 6, 20267m read
World News

De-dollarization and the Psychology of Reserve Currency Denial

Every dominant reserve currency in history has eventually lost that status. The US dollar is not exempt from historical forces — and the denial psychology around this is one of the most expensive cognitive biases an investor can carry.

February 4, 20266m read
Strategy

Boyd's OODA Loop Is Not a Combat Framework — It's a Framework for Life

Colonel John Boyd designed the OODA loop for aerial dogfights. But the insight that Orient is the most important phase — and that Orient contains all your biases — makes this the most powerful cognitive framework for traders, engineers, and leaders.

February 2, 20267m read
Strategy

Sun Tzu Applied to Markets: 5 Principles Every Trader Needs

I've studied military doctrine since JROTC in 2000. The principles that win wars also win markets — if you understand what's actually being said.

February 1, 20267m read
Strategy

Sun Tzu's 'Know Your Enemy' Is the Ultimate Investor Edge

Most investors study the asset. Almost none study the adversarial forces working against their position. That gap is where edge lives.

January 30, 20267m read
Engineering

The Principal-Agent Problem in Engineering: Why Your Best Engineers Quit

Retention isn't a compensation problem. It's an incentive alignment problem. And the misalignment is usually invisible until it's already too late.

January 28, 20267m read
Engineering

Technical Debt Is Not a Code Problem — It's a Psychology Problem

Technical debt doesn't accumulate because engineers don't know better. It accumulates because human psychology makes future pain feel smaller than present friction.

January 25, 20266m read
Engineering

The 10x Engineer Myth: What Actually Separates Good Engineers from Great Ones

The 10x engineer is real. But the myth version gets the math wrong. It's not about coding 10x faster — it's about making everyone around you 2x better.

January 22, 20267m read