Hello, and welcome to Sole Telos. This is going to be a hopefully weekly blog of updates from my mind, and about the projects I am working on.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever read was about how writing investor updates even when you don’t have investors to update is one of the best things you can do. I didn’t believe this, until I subscribed to nockchain’s newsletter.
It was one of the highest signal pieces of media I consumed, and I awaited it every week in my inbox. Writing these newsletters also acts as a great accountability mechanism. Something in our brains changes when we have to consider our actions through the lens of explaining it to someone important, powerful, but also reliant upon us. It forces us into a self critical, honest, but ultimately optimistic mode that can help shorten the time from lesson, to lesson learned.
As such I have decided to begin writing a weekly newsletter with the goal of it containing two things:
- Clear updates about what I accomplished this week,
- Why those things
- Failures
- Successes
- Next Steps/Goals for the coming week
- Highest Signal Ideas that I came across or thought of during the Week
- Frameworks
- Tool Techniques
- Sources of Alpha
With That I shall Lead into An Overview of the projects, how they interrelate, and where I am at with each.
Manifestation Markets is a novel funding mechanism that I developed to help solve the token lemon market issue. I have the contracts written along with a brief white paper on the main page of the site. The Contract have been through review and I am currently remediating the issues found. I am also working on assets for the launch such as comparisons with other funding platforms (kickstarter, equity funding, metaDAO, Republic, etc).
Ease was a project to try and help people round up their purchases to pay off their student loans early and save them money on interest. I have had to shutter this project as it is infeasible due to new regulation around accessing student loan data. In particular Plaid no longer supports these connections due to the STOP ACT.
I haven’t yet told anyone about this but it’s a framework for fine tuning language models for high degrees of self awareness, I will probably write a paper on this not as a research report but as a test to see if someone can get it to work. LSCE stands for Latent Space Computational Engine
This is a fun, art project which I think may end up being the most impactful thing I do for a long while. I am working towards a v1 of the software (LLMos, Blockchain-RAG, wifi portal interface, etc), but the stack is a lot and as such progress is quite slow.
This is my Sole Telos, my goal at the end of time, the thing I desire to become my legacy. It is a parallel society organized a set of values and technologies that combine to be greater than the sum of their parts. There is much I have to do here but many of my projects are intended to lay groundwork for this in the future. My current goal for the next week here is to write a single pager that helps people get acquainted and if they desire to contribute to self select into where their skills could be potentially the most useful.
And with that I shall bid you all adieu until next week.