Where I started

I went to the University of Arizona on a full ride and majored in Business Economics:
- My favorite classes were around game theory, economics of strategy, and entrepreneurship.
- After sophomore year, I did an internship at ASML in global trade and customs.
  - I would never have predicted that export controls on semiconductor lithography tech would have become even more critical, but here we are.
- After my third year, I had enough credits to graduate with my one degree but was on the fence between double majoring in entrepreneurship or not.
  - I did an internship at a consulting firm that summer, and kind of liked it.
  - Realized that going to school and majoring in entrepreneurship was oxymoronic, and elected to graduate early.
- I accepted a remote tech consulting job. I’ve been doing that ever since. It’s fine. But it’s not why I’m here.

What I’m obsessed with now

What I am in love with is the moment we’re in right now. A moment where the exponential functions turn vertical:

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the knowledge economy, redefining human leverage, and providing a much needed encore to the big data narrative we’ve heard about for nearly a decade now.
Cryptocurrency is redefining money, markets, governance, and coordination.
Underneath everything: compute is becoming capital.
- (Side note: there are cryptocurrency projects that allow people to sell excess GPU capacity using crypto payment rails! That’s so cool!)

I don’t think of AI, crypto, and macro as separate domains. I see them as entangled elements of the same shift: from a world defined by energy and labor, to one defined by computation, coordination, and incentives.

Why this site exists

Monetize Compute is where I explore that shift. It’s a notebook, a portfolio, and a signal flare. It’s a place for me to:

Think in public
Make sense of accelerating systems
Collaborate with people who see what’s coming

I care about

Clarity > noise

True signal is rare, and the noise often drowns it out. I’m obsessed with finding signal and amplifying it.

Depth > hype

I care more about second, third, and fourth-order effects than first-order headlines.

People > products

The most interesting and compelling things are still built out of emotion, desire, and trust.

Agency > dependence

I believe in tools that empower people, not ones that inflate institutions.

Play > posturing

As Ferris Bueller once said “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”

If we’re not laughing, questioning, and building at the same time, what the hell are we doing it for?