Writings

I publish on Substack — physics, free will, AI, markets, and whatever else I can't stop thinking about. Below is a live feed; click any title to read it on Substack.

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• The Conservation Law of Tax Alpha Apr 27, 2026

  A simple minded trader and theoretical physicist deconstructs Wall Street's current hottest product.

• The Mystery That Launched a Thousand Papers — Solved? Apr 20, 2026

  How a 40-Year-Old Puzzle Led Me to a Universal Law of Particle Masses

• The Tetrad Tour, Part II Apr 13, 2026

  Politics, Beauty, and Why We Don’t Get Nice Things

• The Tetrad Tour, Part I Apr 6, 2026

  What Falls Out When You Apply Four Lenses to Everything

• The Tetrad Mar 30, 2026

  Four Lenses That Explain Everything (Including God)

• The Simplicity Tax Mar 23, 2026

  Why Retail Investors Pay More for Worse Products (And What It Reveals About the Limits of Behavioral Finance)

• A Reader's Guide to Quantum Theory Meets Gravity Mar 16, 2026

  What each chapter is about, what it establishes, and why you should care

• The Gatekeepers Mar 9, 2026

  Or, How Indians Didn't Just Export Indian Culture — They Decided What Western Culture Was

• The Conquest Nobody Planned Mar 2, 2026

  Or, How a Guy Who Has Seen Exactly Five Indian Movies Explains Why India Won Without Trying

• AI X and the X of AI: Two Revolutions for the Price of One Feb 23, 2026

  Stephen Wolfram Was Almost Right

• The Emperor Has No Alpha Feb 16, 2026

  What Data Mining Reveals About Academic Finance

• The Foreign Policy Paradox: Part 2. Feb 9, 2026

  How Nixon Called Indira Gandhi a "Bitch" While Supporting Genocide, and Why India Still Hasn't Forgiven America

• The Foreign Policy Paradox: A Two-Part Series Feb 2, 2026

  How My Father Became India’s One-Man Pro-American Lobby While Hating “Gotten”

• Albion Jan 26, 2026

  A Love Letter to a Country That's Lost Its Mind

• The Stop-Loss That Stops Gains Jan 19, 2026

  Why Your Drawdown Rules Are Probably Hurting You

• Gravity's Fingerprint on Quantum Interference Jan 12, 2026

  A new way of using the double-slit experiment to learn about nature

• The Forgetting Jan 5, 2026

  How India Buried Its Saviors—And Why It Matters

• The Revolution That Wasn’t Televised Dec 29, 2025

  How India Ditched Its Socialist Pajamas for Capitalist Jeans—While Nobody Was Watching

• The Precipice Dec 22, 2025

  How a Partition Refugee, a Polyglot Novelist, and a World Bank Economist Found Themselves Standing Between India and Civilizational Collapse

• A Hidden Pattern in the Universe's Most Basic Building Blocks Dec 15, 2025

  The Mystery of Particle Generations