Source
Reality. Truth. Learning. Seeing clearly.
Questions like:- What is actually happening?
- What evidence exists?
- What assumptions am I making?
Start Here
Understand how I think before deciding whether to read anything else.
I’ve spent my career across hedge funds, high-frequency trading, gambling, entrepreneurship, and investing.
The industries changed. The patterns didn’t.
The four perspectives
Everything I write lives in one of four perspectives.
Operator
Decision making. Psychology. Execution. Habits.
Questions like:- Why did I make that decision?
- What constraint exists?
- How should I act?
Machine
Systems. Business. Markets. Organizations.
Questions like:- What produces predictable outcomes?
- What feedback loops exist?
- How does the system scale?
Network
People. Trust. Culture. Relationships.
Questions like:- Who creates leverage?
- How do ideas spread?
- Why do organizations succeed?
Start with these essays
Four essays to get you oriented.
The World May Be Teaching You Something
The facts of an experience and the meaning we assign to it are not the same thing.
8 min listenA Working Business Is Not Enough
Why the person running a company must keep building its next source of growth before the current model reaches its ceiling.
8 min listenBuild the Machine
How a small clothing brand and a high-ticket consultancy built very different systems for turning attention into customers.
8 min listenBorrowed Trust
How trust moves through people, institutions, and networks—and determines which opportunities reach you.
8 min listenMental models
Frameworks
Many articles eventually become reusable models. Instead of remembering one article, you remember one model.
Explore frameworksThe journey
About Darin
A brief look at my background, experiences, and what led me to build this site.
Read my story
Better questions change lives
faster than better answers.