Ideas are light: a title and a few lines, in conversation with what is current. Projects are the showcase unit: the decision, the measurement, one image — and the reading under the lens. Every entry has two layers.
the surface says what; the lens says why.I grew up in a country with a great deal in the ground that struggles anyway. Institutions decide what the ground is worth.
inclusive vs extractive is not a moral label. it is a different payoff table for whoever holds the pen.Each era changes the question wealth is asked. Gold, then output. The next question is unwritten.
the hidden variable in every era is who sets the parameter of thinking — the filter that decides which question counts.Of everything that happened in my first decade in Canada, three or four doors did most of the work.
the counterfactual is the whole argument, and it is the one column no dataset holds.People in survival mode make short-sighted decisions — not because they are short-sighted, but because the position is.
a high discount rate is not a character flaw. it is the price of a future you cannot count on.The economy can be growing while individuals are not. Both are true at once; the gap has a mechanism.
growth is a sum, and a sum has no idea who it happened to. split it by capital and labour and the same number becomes two lives.Everyone should be able to reach enough: a decent life, a retirement, the occasional vacation. Past that, time is the wealth.
past enough, the marginal unit buys less than the marginal hour. that is where economics hands the question to philosophy.The first thousand English words changed my life; the last thousand changed almost nothing. The curve flattens where the accent stays.
marginal word, marginal value: past that point you are not buying words — you are buying the first try.Trade and the environment are negatively compatible — but not as a fixed law. It depends on which regime you are in.
second best: when one distortion already exists, removing another can make things worse. the fitted line's real job is to tell you which regime you are in."Time to think is a unique luxury that we don't think much about." No account holds it; every life is priced by it.
ε — everything the model cannot hold. time to think lives there, with the doors I never saw.Each unit is the decision, the measurement, one image of the work, and — under the lens — the reading: the mechanism under the number, in the economist's words.
An adoption-outcome analysis of Toronto’s shelter data — the original portfolio project, now being rewritten as a proper case study with the methodology on the page.
Case study in progressAn interactive, Football Manager–style map of the analytics craft — six pillars of attributes, twenty-two roles, one honest self-assessment.
Open the dossier →The day craft: warehouse models, dashboards built to be trusted, and pipeline design that stays boring on purpose.
Write-ups in progressNone of the instruments here are mine.
The looking is. where the looking comes from →