Welcome
I’m Christian — a CPA and sr. financial analyst writing on investing, philosophy, history, and technology.
This is my digital garden; a collection of notes, half-formed ideas, and occasional essays.
Most of what’s here is incomplete. A note is a single idea - a fragment of what I have learned in my readings. When those ideas mature into something coherent, it can be found in the writings section. But most ideas stay messy. Many have spelling errors. I’m often more interested in exploration than polish. Feel free to look around!
About This Garden
Essays are organized by maturity, rather than chronology or topic. I’ve taken inspiration from Peter Hopkirk’s The Great Game, and from the 19th-century explorers who risked their lives to dutifully chart and map ‘the great unknown’.
terraincognita - Raw notes and observations. Potentially wrong. Don’t take these too seriously.
surveyed - Ideas starting to come together. Still developing.
gazetteer - Rare, fully-formed thoughts. Though, I always reserve the right to change my mind.
On AI
I use AI extensively in research, formatting and cleaning up my writing, writing code for this site, etc. Interpret that as you wish.