I am Kyla – a creator (curator, mostly), writer, and researcher. I am currently focused on philosophy, behavioral analysis through the markets, learning design, and riding my bike as far as possible. I currently am building a company in the education space (launching soonish!). Here’s a link to my Spotify if you want to see my brain soundtrack and please follow my stream of consciousness on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Substack (where my writing now sits) and YouTube!
This is what I am reading currently.
Current Interests
Media Appearances
- Consumer spending as a measure of GDP growth
- Price stickiness
- Deglobalization and dollar as reserve currency
- The memetic power of narratives
- Green energy policy and green energy investment
Current Projects
- Daily news show on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram reels
- Weekly research papers
- Weekly YouTube Videos
- Weekly podcast
- Illustrated terms
- Illustrated crypto guide
- Game Theory book
Current Questions
- Transportation as economic power
- Why do we have credit scores?
- Betting markets
- The Unbundling of Education
- Climbing the mountain, but nothing is there
- We don’t need new stuff, we just need improved stuff
- Small business lending vs home ownership
- Shopping cart habits as a leading indicator for humanity
- Odd Lots: Meme Stock Mania
- Thoughts in Between: How the Internet is Changing Finance
- The Realignment: Metaverse, Inflation, Web3, Supply Chains and more
- The Investopedia Express: The New Age of Financial Literacy
- Bankless: Fortress Russia Crumbles
- Bankless: Why Everything is Weird
- Infinite Loops: When Financial Education meets Entertainment
- Hello Metaverse: Gen Z, Decentralization, and More
- Real Vision: Nasdaq’s Slump, Beyond Meat’s Woes, and Dogecoin’s Latest Rival
- PRSPR Podcast
- Rambling Mind: Memefication of Markets
- Market Champions: Inflation, Digital Assets, and the Creator Economy
- Chicks of Fintwit: Creators and the Creator Economy
- The Deep End: On Ramps to Investing
- Josh Terry Plays: Exploring the Financial World
- Moonshots: Selling Cars, Content Creation, and More
- The Business Brew: A Finfluential Conversation
My Writing
This piece is my magnum opus at the moment: People are What Matters, Actually
Some of my favorite pieces I’ve written –
- Ditch Your Car: Ridesharing is More Cost Effective
- Is GameStop a Bank? Modeling the Video Game Market
- Dating Data: An Overview of the Algorithm
- The Calculus Wars: The Power of People
- Do we need a recession?
Commodities
- Taking Some Sense to Make a Nickel
- Oil and the Federal Reserve
- Pricing Agriculture Risk | Interview with Grant Cavanaugh
Geopolitical Analysis
- The Great Balancing Act
- Evergrande: Tip of the Debt Iceberg
- Evergrande and Lots of Debt
- The China Crackdown
- A Brief Update on Russia and Ukraine
- Update on Russia and Ukraine
- Financial Warfare
Game Theory
Crypto
- Crypto Regulation, Curators, and Semiconductors
- Owning the Online: What are NFTs?
- The Ownership Economy: Regulation and Penguins
- Break it DAOwn Now
- Exploring the Meaning of the Metaverse
- The Polarization of Crypto Narrative
- UST and USD: Everything is Monetary Policy
Market Analysis
- Roblox and the Creator Economy
- The Market as an Athlete: Periodization in Training
- Investing in Disruptors: Profitability in the Age of Monopolies
- A Basic Quantitative Analysis of the Foreign Exchange Market
- Governance through Decentralization on the Blockchain
- Asset/Liability Structure of Depository Institutions and Interest Rate Risk
- The Blaring Horn of Bonds
- Q&A: Wealth Concentration, the 1970s, and Stagflation
The Federal Reserve
Market Guides
- A Guide to the FOMC
- The Secret of Car Sales: The Science of Negotiation
- Digital vs Physical
- The Core: The Importance of Connectors
- Volmaggedon and the Rise of Passive
- Cambrian Explosion
- RRP Explainer
- Narratives, Reflexivity, and Market Go Down
- On Market Movement
- Food Insecurity and the Baby Formula Crisis
Statistics
- Probability vs. Possibility: Lottery Analysis in Quarantine
- The Cost of Love: Appraising The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Pizzmathematics: Which Pizza is Truly the Best?
- Fermata and Staccato: Does Music Predict the Stock Market?
- A Visualization: Correlation vs Causation
- The Nugget Numbers: How Much Chicken is in a Chicken Nugget?
- TikTok and Content Strategy: The Power of Creation
- Natural Language Processing and Naval: The Art of the Podcast
- The Bookstore to the App Store: What Our Apps Say About Us
- Statistics in One Slide
- The App That Knows You Better than You Know Yourself: An Analysis of the TikTok Algorithm
- How the Pandemic has Change the Premium of Living in a City
- Spotify Sentiment Analysis: The Joy of the Jam
Old Market Analysis
Market Philosophy
- The Federal Reserve’s Wager
- What’s Going On?
- Why Speculation Drives Markets
- Being Bullish Humanity
- The Divergence Between Expectations and Reality
- How Elon Musk Moves Markets
- Consumption on Demand
- Supply, Demand and the Saga of Stucky Bois
- The Debt Ceiling, Expectations, web3 and the Energy Crisis
- The Traffic Light
- The Disruption of Stability
- The F*ck Around and Find Out Quadrant
- Solutions are the Problem
- Why Money isn’t Real
- The Stonk Market
Startups
- Midwest Arbitrage: Capturing One of America’s Most Undervalued Assets
- Rising Tides: The Science of Salmon Investing
Social Commentary
- Memes as news: The Importance of Short-form content
- The Paradox of Societal Polarization: We are all Hedgefoxes
- The Economic Impact of Bees and the Role of Deceit
- Kyla, Not Kayla
- Seeing the clouds for the first time, again
- Bourgeois Virtues
- The Bare Minimum
- The Uncomfortable Uncertainty of the Unknown
- The Distortion and Disruption of Narratives
Other
- The Why Behind Writing
- We all love math. We just don’t know it
- The Reminder that we Are All Human
- The Art of Running a Good Race
- 50 miles later, I found myself
Options Trading
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