Category: Analysis

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…

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,…

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.…

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…

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…

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 —…

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…

An age-old debate still rages: Papa John’s or Domino’s? This piece won’t be a qualitative answer to the above question, but rather, a quantitative one. I recently did a chicken nuggets math piece, breaking down exactly how much chicken is in a chicken nugget. I wanted to do the same for pizza. I went to…