MY WRITING
I have a few
things to say.
I write to work out what I think, explain why I think it, and give the argument somewhere it can be examined.
Business supplies plenty of questions. So do philosophy, science, films, music and the conduct of everyday life. A subject earns my attention by being interesting or consequential. Occasionally it manages both.
The blog is where I think in public about the world and the work. Adventure Capitalist gives fiction, physics and longer explorations a home. Here, I bring the two together and give you a way into the writing.
A PLACE TO BEGIN
Business. Reason.
And a little music.
Three different doors into the same mind. Follow whichever interests you.
If Everyone Has the Same Payment Rails, What Makes a Fintech Worth Anything?
The judgment and customer experience a fintech must contribute when its competitors can buy similar infrastructure.
From Kant to “Shut Up and Calculate”
An argument for reality and causality as foundations of physics.
‘Feel’ - Robbie Williams
A personal appreciation of the song’s arrangement, emotional force and place among my favourites.
THE READING LIST
Take your time.
Bring your judgment.
Eight pieces. Four from my blog, four from Adventure Capitalist. Enterprise gives way to physics, then back again, with a story along the way.
8 entries
Stablecoins Will Succeed When People Stop Thinking About Stablecoins
Why payments should be judged by what customers can complete, what they pay and how failures are resolved.
From Kant to “Shut Up and Calculate”
An argument for reality and causality as foundations of physics.
If Everyone Has the Same Payment Rails, What Makes a Fintech Worth Anything?
The judgment and customer experience a fintech must contribute when its competitors can buy similar infrastructure.
Does the Observer Create Reality? A Rational Rebuttal
What observation can tell us about reality, and why I reject the claim that consciousness creates it.
Reality Is Back in the Boardroom (and It’s About Time)
A case for accountable leadership, measurable contribution and ownership in business.
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle: Epistemic Limit or Metaphysical License to Evade Reality?
Where quantum uncertainty ends and the philosophical claims made on its behalf begin.
Liquidity First: How I’m Building Zen and Atlas Rails for a Permissionless, Value-for-Value Financial Future
The founding argument for organising Zen around the movement of value.
The Axioms of Epsilon
First contact tests the rigour of Serra’s thinking as an alien intelligence demands consistency before conversation.