$ cd ~/blog

Technical writing on systematic trading, infrastructure, and software engineering.

waterloo-notes-coops-ai-wave.md — blog

Notes from Waterloo Country: Co-ops, Campus Energy, and the AI Wrapper Wave

What campus recruiting and the YC accelerator wave look like from inside a co-op program.

#Learning#Systems#Career#YC#AI
$published October 17, 20258 min read
agentification-3-phases.md — blog

Agentification: The 3 Phases and Why Most Demos Are Phase 0.5

Trying to understand what makes an AI system a real 'agent' vs. just a fancy API call.

#Learning#AI#Agents#Systems#Exploration
$published October 13, 20257 min read
gold-vs-nasdaq.md — blog

What Got Me Curious About Gold vs. the Nasdaq

Why do gold and tech sometimes move opposite directions, and what does it tell us about market mood?

#Learning#Finance#Python#Markets#Exploration
$published October 13, 20257 min read
risk-on-and-off-together.md — blog

When Risk-On and Risk-Off Rally Together

Some days both stocks and safe assets go up at the same time. What's happening on those days?

#Learning#Finance#Markets#Curiosity#Python
$published October 13, 20256 min read
demystifying-enterprise-saas.md — blog

What Makes Enterprise Software Sticky? (SAP, Workday, Atlassian)

Trying to understand why companies pay millions for software that seems like it could be a spreadsheet—and what actually makes it valuable.

#Learning#Enterprise#SaaS#Systems#Curiosity
$published July 15, 20259 min read