New politics gives rise to new elites The past few years and the opportunity that has arisen in the crypto space fuelled a desire in me to get above the crowd, to gain models of reality that the majority of participants in the space do not have. I wanted to be like a young Buffett at the racetrack in his teens, at an advantage over those with less information. In a quantitative age, that informational advantage is typically construed to be a killer algorithm or statistical edge. Yet, coming f...