INTENT → BITS
Commanding Bits at Scale
Software engineering is no longer the priesthood. The interface is English.
READ THE ESSAY ↗MATT STAROLIS / MACROARCHITECTAUSTIN, TEXAS
HOW DOES THIS
ACTUALLY WORK?
I find the hidden architecture inside complex systems and teach people to see it.
From CPUs and markets to agents and the mind itself. The subject changes. The method does not.
THREE SYSTEMS.
ONE THREAD.
Do not take the positioning on faith. Read the work and inspect the reasoning.
5Y = 3Y + 3F(2Y)
How to Read a Yield Curve
The curve is a market argument about the future cost of money.
READ THE ESSAY ↗LIKELIHOOD / IMPACT
How to Teach Kids to Think About Risk
Impact alone is not risk. Probability alone is not risk. Good decisions require both.
READ THE ESSAY ↗A NON-LINEAR
LIFE BUILT ON
FIRST PRINCIPLES.
Architecture before abstraction.
Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin. Contributor to the second edition of Introduction to Computing Systems.
Price is a compressed argument.
Founded and operated a registered investment adviser after passing all three levels of the CFA Program on the first attempt.
Systems have to survive reality.
Built across National Instruments, Praetorian, and Microsoft—where technical judgment, commercial consequence, and human coordination meet.
Understanding must become agency.
More than 4,000 hours of one-to-one mentorship and craft analysis, now carried forward through Engineering Confidence.
WHAT I AM
DOING NOW.
No speculative roadmap. No future project promoted into present-tense identity.
ENGINEERING
CONFIDENCE
Private one-to-one mentorship for gifted and twice-exceptional students. The work is building durable understanding, recovery, and intellectual agency.
VISIT THE PRACTICE ↗MACHINES, MARKETS, MINDS
Explanations and arguments for people who want to inspect the mechanism rather than inherit the conclusion.
READ THE ARCHIVE ↗SYSTEMS IN LIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Four agent systems shipped where real users, privacy constraints, and real failure consequences make architectural judgment matter.
If you want to understand the machinery, start with the argument. Then inspect the work.