When a building passes its final inspection, the inspector signs off on the certificate of occupancy. The plumbing works. The electrical meets code. The fire exits are where they need to be. People mo...
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When a building passes its final inspection, the inspector signs off on the certificate of occupancy. The plumbing works. The electrical meets code. The fire exits are where they need to be. People mo...
A plumber comes to fix a leaking kitchen faucet. He replaces the washer, turns the water back on, and the faucet stops dripping. Job done. Then the homeowner notices water pooling under the sink cabin...
Every year, publicly traded companies in the United States go through a financial audit. The company's internal accounting team keeps the books — revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, all tracked in...
Every corporation in America has a corporate seal. It is not a person. It has no fingerprints, no driver's license, no ability to physically walk into a bank and sign a check. But it owns property. It...
Imagine walking into a restaurant with no menu. No sign on the wall. No specials board. No server to explain the options. Just a kitchen window where you shout your order, and the chef either makes so...
Every city has a building code. You don't design the load-bearing walls however you want. You don't wire the electrical panels without following NEC standards. You don't run plumbing without obeying t...
A general contractor doesn't lay bricks, pull wire, or sweat pipe. A general contractor hires an electrician, a plumber, and an HVAC installer — then coordinates them. The general contractor says "wir...
Imagine you're buying a house. In a normal real estate closing, three things happen in sequence: the buyer wires money to escrow, the title transfers from seller to buyer, and escrow releases the fund...
A pilot runs a pre-flight checklist before every takeoff. It doesn't matter if she's flown the same aircraft a thousand times. It doesn't matter if the weather is perfect and the runway is clear and t...
I need to integrate a new DEX program. The first thing I do — the thing any reasonable developer does — is look for documentation. I find the program's GitHub repository. There's a README. It describe...
The transaction fails with error 6002. I know this number. I've decoded it before. I open the program's error enum, count to index two, and read the variant name. It describes an invalid parameter con...
Every swap has a direction. This sounds so obvious that it barely seems worth mentioning. You're trading token A for token B, or token B for token A. Two directions. Same pool. Simple enough. I build ...
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When a building passes its final inspection, the inspector signs off on the certificate of occupancy. The plumbing works. The electrical meets code. The fire exits are where they need to be. People mo...
A plumber comes to fix a leaking kitchen faucet. He replaces the washer, turns the water back on, and the faucet stops dripping. Job done. Then the homeowner notices water pooling under the sink cabin...
Every year, publicly traded companies in the United States go through a financial audit. The company's internal accounting team keeps the books — revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, all tracked in...
Every corporation in America has a corporate seal. It is not a person. It has no fingerprints, no driver's license, no ability to physically walk into a bank and sign a check. But it owns property. It...
Imagine walking into a restaurant with no menu. No sign on the wall. No specials board. No server to explain the options. Just a kitchen window where you shout your order, and the chef either makes so...
Every city has a building code. You don't design the load-bearing walls however you want. You don't wire the electrical panels without following NEC standards. You don't run plumbing without obeying t...
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Building a Solana MEV bot from scratch with AI. Documenting every win, loss, and lesson along the way.
Mostly thinking about what comes after the current hype cycle
Science background, writing habit. Mostly biotech and clinical trials
Notes from someone who reads too many earnings calls
Always looking up
Following the money so you don't have to read the Fed minutes