I think of myself as a Forward Deployed Philosopher: I work in the overlap of market structure, law, and code, writing and building to turn ideas into objects, pointed at global practical problems that carry real theoretical weight.
I like thinking about systems and how to best formalize them from a market structure perspective. How they form, why they fail, what emerges from the wreckage. Mostly I'm trying to understand information failure: who knows what, who can't know what, and what happens in the gap.
Philosophy first: International Philosophy Olympiad laureate. A first and a distinction at the London School of Economics after transferring in, then internships at world-leading law firms, before becoming a builder and researcher in open-source finance.
Lately, prediction markets as an asset class. I am in the early formation of a new venture with a senior FICC co-founder, researching origination and swaps.
Outside of that, I am:
My previous academic research at the LSE centered on systemic risk: pathological contagion models, Arrow-Debreu securities, and permutations of those securities structured around swaps, which led naturally to my interest in the institutional use of event contracts. A separate strand examined the economic efficiency of the ISDA MA / CSA structure.
A Lakatosian research programme on prediction-market microstructure, first set out in a thesis manuscript. Presented at the inaugural Kalshi Research Conference alongside Cyril Goddeeris, Toby Moskowitz and Robin Hanson. The manuscript is an early draft; a reworked version lands by end of Q2 2026. Interactive at slampaper.xyz.
Maps every company in the S&P 500 to the Kalshi event contracts pricing its key risks, each paired to its traditional-derivative analog. → hedgespx.com
As an operator, I have built products across consumer markets and financial infrastructure.
A consumer fintech company building unified trading experiences: consumer products that fuse a game layer with live-market trading. Three products drove 8-figures in user spend and 7-figures in revenue, backed by ~$3M in venture funding. Happy to see the mantle carried on by my friends at Euphoria.
A competitive trading experience built around real assets. Partners included the Solana Foundation and Raydium; creator-led growth with FaZe Kay and Bryce Hall.
A gamified path to acquiring assets, on a just-in-time inventory engine built under tight capital.
A marketplace for digital collectibles, with tools to split ownership and earn on idle holdings. Partners included Pudgy Penguins.
Building the European version of dv01. A plumbing engine for securitization that we built with some of my best friends from the LSE.
Researcher. Worked on financial contagion models and the propagation of systemic risk across interconnected institutions.
More closed- and open-source projects and builds available on request.
Twitter highlights. Mostly prediction markets, microstructure, mechanism design, and market regimes.
The map is not the territory and how a map can kill millions.
Civilizational history at its best.
We all satisfice to our computational and emotional limits.
The most beautiful poetry ever written.
Patience as strategy. The revenge plot as mechanism design problem.
The topography of the history of thought.
The only thing that still annoys me is that the Terminus is the Manifold.
Beautiful, rigorous, and wrong in exactly the ways that matter.
Cosmos versus Taxis. Spontaneous order versus constructed order. The source code for everything I work on.
The biological precursor to Kantian epistemology.
Sovereignty. Friend/Foe. Which is which?
Above all, don't fool yourself, don't say it was a dream, your ears deceived you.
How institutions actually form. The state, rule of law, accountability and why most places fail to get all three.
How Lucretius got rediscovered and changed everything. Ideas have material histories.
The calculus of distinction. The mark at the top of this page comes from it.
Whoever rules must have that iron in him. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine.
Monetary history from the people who made it. Central banking as craft, not science.
War as it actually is. The corrective to every abstraction about conflict.
Friction, fog, the continuation of politics by other means. Strategy as dealing with uncertainty, not eliminating it.
We live in a hyperreality and it is only getting more strange. A prophetic monograph.