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The Curious Mind: Sunday Spark #15
Small, Unscalable, Yours
Dear Friends,
Cheap Thinking, Expensive Machines
"Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter."
— Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission, 1954
“At particular times a great deal of stupid people have a great deal of stupid money."
—...
The Weirdness Premium
The Curious Mind Research Letter No. 2 is out.
There’s a sentence in this issue that sounds wrong: a market can get worse at pricing while every single participant in it gets better at analysis.
It isn’t a hot take. It’s arithmetic — pla...
Start Here
The returns go to whoever spots the scarce assets migrating first - from chips to megawatts in AI, from cognitive horsepower to judgement in careers.
My name is Ahmed Husain, I spent twenty-seven years in institutional finance.
The goal o...
The Treasury Just Did The Thing
A short one today, because something just happened that I want on your radar.
Twelve days ago I published Curious Mind Research Letter No. 1. The argument was that the machinery of wartime finance — the 1942 playbook, where the state quie...
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