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The Fog of War: Why You Only See 30% of the Gamma Game

2025-10-19 · finance, options

SpotGamma shows a massive Call Wall at $500. You short the stock. Price explodes through $500 like it's air. What happened? Welcome to the 70% of the options market you'll never see—the OTC shadow world.

The Nuclear Renaissance: Why Microsoft Pays 83% Premiums for AI Power

2025-10-11 · tech

Constellation Energy's 22.1 GW nuclear fleet is capturing unprecedented pricing power. This deep dive analyzes the $86.7B Microsoft/Meta PPA economics and explains why 83-92% premiums over renewable energy are not only justified—they're sustainable for decades.

One Month Into the Sabbatical

2024-12-07 · travel

Field notes from the first month after leaving Fortinet—splitting time between Vancouver goodbyes and research on Otaru, Japan.

Writing Backlog

Topics surfaced from recent conversations that would broaden coverage across finance, technology, travel, and systems thinking.

Finance

  • Options Strategies for AI/Semiconductor Volatility — Walk through ZEBRA and call spread constructions, illustrate why they fit NVDA/AMD volatility regimes, and show Kelly-informed risk controls.
  • Why I'm Long AI Infrastructure — Document the thesis for NVDA, AMD, and MSFT across supply chains, geopolitics, and capital allocation.
  • Markets as Physical Systems — Apply information theory, entropy, and Lévy processes to explain where classical efficient market assumptions break.

Tech

  • Debugging Kerberos AES256 Keytab Salt Issues — Recount the Fortinet incident response, from packet captures to the long-term fix.
  • Building a Scalable Auth Testing Framework — Share how Ansible, PyTest, and GitLab CI handled 5k user / 20k group scenarios.
  • Testing HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 in Production — Detail the ALPN session reuse bug, Chrome behaviour, and the shipped workaround.

Travel

  • Digital Nomad Gear for Deep Work — Outline minimalist packing heuristics and how routines transfer across cities.
  • Vancouver Cost of Living Breakdown — Publish real numbers on rent, food, transport, and discretionary spending.
  • Planning a Slow Month in Otaru — Log the research process, budget scaffolding, and expectations ahead of the trip.

Mind

  • Meditation for Engineers — Explain how mindfulness practices improve code review focus and decision-making.
  • Learning Across Disciplines — Compare QA, quant research, and travel systems to codify cross-domain mental models.
  • Sabbatical One-Year Retrospective — Reflect honestly on goals, finances, and mental health after a year away from full-time work.

Systems Thinking

  • Applying the Kelly Criterion Beyond Markets — Translate Kelly sizing into frameworks for career bets, learning focus, and time allocation.

Ai governance

Compliance

Finance

The Fog of War: Why You Only See 30% of the Gamma Game

2025-10-19

SpotGamma shows a massive Call Wall at $500. You short the stock. Price explodes through $500 like it's air. What happened? Welcome to the 70% of the options market you'll never see—the OTC shadow world.

Mind

Options

The Fog of War: Why You Only See 30% of the Gamma Game

2025-10-19

SpotGamma shows a massive Call Wall at $500. You short the stock. Price explodes through $500 like it's air. What happened? Welcome to the 70% of the options market you'll never see—the OTC shadow world.

Tech

The Nuclear Renaissance: Why Microsoft Pays 83% Premiums for AI Power

2025-10-11

Constellation Energy's 22.1 GW nuclear fleet is capturing unprecedented pricing power. This deep dive analyzes the $86.7B Microsoft/Meta PPA economics and explains why 83-92% premiums over renewable energy are not only justified—they're sustainable for decades.

Travel

One Month Into the Sabbatical

2024-12-07

Field notes from the first month after leaving Fortinet—splitting time between Vancouver goodbyes and research on Otaru, Japan.