Hey! If you’ve been following me on here for a while, you might have noticed that I stopped posting as much – that’s because I migrated over to Substack (click here to see my work!) and have been active on YouTube! I am going to cross-post to here from now on, but just wanted to…
Read MoreThe Coinbase Direct Listing: A Crypto Signal
This is a broad macro piece on my thoughts around Coinbase. I am not nearly as knowledgeable on crypto as many others, and I have linked to more in-depth work below for those that want a deeper dive! The Coinbase Direct Listing Coinbase is going public *sometime* today through a direct listing, similar to Roblox,…
Read MoreThe Stonk Market: How the Markets Became a Meme
The market is no longer driven by fundamentals. It’s driven by memes. What is a meme? A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that becomes a fad, spreading by means of imitation from person to person within a culture. They drive how we interact and serve as visual news sources, and ultimately are tools of navigation.…
Read MoreRoblox and the Creator Economy
Today’s piece takes a deep dive into the potential of Roblox ahead of their DPO! The Open-Source, Creator Economy Roblox is a call option not only on the metaverse, but the open-source economy. We are entering a world where people are building for themselves – and Roblox is an iteration on the path towards a…
Read MoreThe Bare Minimum
This piece discusses the minimum wage. I understand that this is a nuanced and delicate topic, and there are many points I did not address including systemic inequality, education, productivity indexing, and more. If you have thoughts or questions, please leave a comment! The Minimum Wage What will happen if we raise the federal minimum…
Read MoreThe Video Game Portfolio
The Video Game Market Reddit user u/DeepFuckingValue turned a $53k YOLO into $11M. Through GME call options. Let me explain. What happened with GameStop? Let’s start from the beginning: Chewy CEO Ryan Cohen joined GameStop’s Board of Directors Upon this move, Citron Research predicted that the stock price would drop r/wallstreetbets decided otherwise For a bit of historical context, r/wallstreetbets is a…
Read MoreThe Calculus Wars: The Power of People
In a letter to Helen Keller, Mark Twain wrote: “It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing — and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite —…
Read More50 Miles Later, I Found Myself
Note From Kyla: Another non-analytical piece (however, the human mind is the most complex system of all) Thank you for reading, if you choose to do so! Also, if anyone wants to chat about biking – it’s a huge passion of mine, and I plan to do some bikepacking as soon as I logistically can!…
Read MoreThe Cost of Love: Appraising The Twelve Days of Christmas
How to get into the holiday spirit? Do some math! The Twelve Days of Christmas is a Christmas carol that lists out items that a (supposed) lover is purchasing for his love. The earliest version of the song appeared in a kid’s book titled, Mirth With-out Mischief in 1780. However, the version that we are most…
Read MoreThe Why Behind Writing
A less analytical piece today. I have several pieces in the work, so we will get back to ‘Data Data Data’ soon, but this hopefully will answer the question: why does this blog even exist? Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in the inaugural OnDeck Writer Fellowship (fellow writers, I highly recommend that you…
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