Blog

Long-form essays at the intersection of financial markets, systems thinking, and whatever else catches my eye. Updated occasionally (or barely).

• Weak Men

  30 April 2026

  The courage to feel discomfort. Why weak men are a systemic pollutant, and why that is (partly) not their fault.

• Stop The All

  17 April 2026

  The world has too many loser men and too many crazy women, but the louder lesson is that absolutist slogans erase the precision we need to actually fix anything. This is an essay about virtue signalling, motte-and-bailey traps, the kafka-trap version of gender discourse, and why the smallest, hardest place to start fixing things is your own group chat.

• Doing the Calculus on Peace

  4 April 2025

  Why the only mathematically defensible answer for Israel-Palestine right now is the One-Democratic-Secular State. Not on moral grounds, not on theological grounds, but by process of elimination, the same way you’d do it in a lab.

• Like a Pump-and-Dump Stock

  23 December 2023

  The modern romance market is structurally broken. Not because of hypergamy (that’s a healthy mechanism), but because perceived value on both sides has drifted from intrinsic value, and the men who unconditionally subsidise the market have erased every corrective feedback loop. The Lindy fix is the old kafa’ah principle. Match on epistemology, values, trajectory, and emotional capacity. Not on whoever sits highest.

• Smokers Are Cowards

  18 December 2023

  Smoking isn’t really a personal health choice. It externalises harm onto people who never agreed to it (kids included), drains the public health system, and reveals an unwillingness to do the structural work Indonesia actually needs.

• Communism, Libertarianism, and Feudalism

  8 November 2023

  Noble Goals, Broken Vessels. What I think pretty much about Communism, the future of Libertarianism, and what the world about to looks like.

• We Should Probably Stop Watching Porn. I Think.

  22 November 2022

  The honest accounting of what it costs, to you, to performers, to culture, just doesn’t add up

• Diego: Nabi Akhir Zaman dan Nubuat Masa Depan

  8 December 2021

  Nubuat Kenabian, sebuah Pedagogi Tata Cara Hidup, bagaimana Diego memilih untuk tetap ’tinggal’ di ‘Society’ yang sudah ‘mati’.

• The Machine

  23 September 2020

  How I think the world works. It’s just math and biology.

• Titik Tepi: Keniscayaan Distopian

  3 August 2020

  Di Jakarta tahun 2031, seorang analis keuangan bernama Diego menyabotase pembaruan CBDC pemerintah yang dirancang memotong 40% UBI bagi warga tidak efisien dengan menyiarkan worm kriptografis dari menara transmisi tua, lari dan memanjat tebing mengejar drone pembunuh, namun kemenangannya terasa hampa karena ia tahu ancaman sesungguhnya bukan oligarki, melainkan AI takeoff yang akan datang dalam tahun mendatang …

• The Shield That Became a Sword

  30 June 2019

  Religion is the most elegant piece of cognitive engineering humans ever built to make us cooperate. But forcing that legacy software to run a civilisation with nuclear reactors and bioengineering turns the shield that once saved us into a sword that locks every compromise inside eternal dogma.