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About
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Work
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Writing
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Talks & press
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Code
Tools, experiments, and things that ship.
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Longevity
A personal experiment in living better.
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StableZK
Money without a master key.
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Now
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Contact
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Links
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NIST AI RMF in practice: a regulated-industry playbook
How to operationalize the NIST AI Risk Management Framework in a regulated enterprise — and why treating it as a checklist is the wrong instinct.
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What a fractional Chief AI Officer actually does
The fractional CAIO role has outgrown the consulting-jargon phase. Here is what the job looks like inside a real engagement — and what it does not.
- Longevity
Timeline
- Longevity
What to Test
- Longevity
Supplements
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Training
- Longevity
Protocols
- Longevity
Results
- Longevity
Exome beats Whole Genome
A contrarian sequencing decision, argued carefully.
- Longevity
The Bloodwork Panel
Fewer than fifty markers. Every one with a decision rule attached.
- Longevity
Inflammation & Allergy Panels
The silent over-forty lever most programs ignore.
- Longevity
Choosing a Wearable
The device matters less than the consistency.
- Longevity
The Universal Four
Creatine, vitamin D₃, magnesium glycinate, omega-3 — about $40 a month.
- Longevity
Personalized Supplements
Only off specific genetic, bloodwork, or allergy signal.
- Longevity
What to Ignore
The longevity products whose marketing has outrun the evidence.
- Longevity
Prescription Considerations
Statins, metformin, GLP-1s, HRT, TRT — through a physician.
- Longevity
Strength Training
Non-negotiable over thirty-five.
- Longevity
Zone 2 Cardio
The cheapest mitochondrial intervention available.
- Longevity
HIIT for VO₂ Max
One or two structured interval sessions a week.
- Longevity
Sleep — Protect Like a Budget
Seven to nine hours, consistent schedule, cool dark room.
- Longevity
The Minimalist Protocol
About $700–$900 in year one. Better than 80% of what people do.
- Longevity
The Smart Protocol
About $2,600–$3,100 in year one. The tier I ran on myself.
- Longevity
The Full-Stack Protocol
About $6,000–$15,000 a year. Compliance and convenience, not more biology.
- Longevity
Start This Week
A seven-day on-ramp from reading to doing.
- Longevity
Aggregate Results Across Cohorts
The headline numbers that stabilized across three trials.
- Longevity
Cohort 3 · Deep Dive
Thirty-five enrolled, eighteen completed. Where gender-differentiated models came from.
- Longevity
Segment Findings · Age × Gender
Why the over-35 cohort responds more strongly than the under-35 cohort.
- Longevity
The Biotin Case
Why no single data layer would have produced this recommendation.
- StableZK
Timeline
- StableZK
What Money Has to Do
- StableZK
Cryptographic Primitives
- StableZK
The GCSR
- StableZK
The Resolution Waterfall
- StableZK
The Regulatory Perimeter
- StableZK
Stability as a Credible Commitment
A monetary system is not stable until the ladder is published.
- StableZK
Privacy as a Property of the Stack
Default-private at the protocol layer. Selective disclosure under holder control.
- StableZK
Fairness as Protocol-Level Ordering
The leader cannot see what is inside the transactions.
- StableZK
Durability Across Cryptographic Regime Change
The system must survive the migration to post-quantum primitives.
- StableZK
Signatures
BLS12-381 today. SLH-DSA and ML-DSA at Phase 3.
- StableZK
Proof Systems
Groth16 today. STARK at Phase 3. Re-attestation in between.
- StableZK
Threshold Encryption
The leader cannot decrypt before commitment.
- StableZK
MEV-Resistant Ordering
First-come-first-served, weighted by validator-attested timestamps.
- StableZK
Cross-Chain Primitives
Committee today. ZK light clients in 12–18 months.
- StableZK
The Five-Layer Ladder
Each rung has a published trigger. No rung is the last rung until Layer 5.
- StableZK
The 15% Cap
The parameter that closes the Terra loop.
- StableZK
The 130% Floor
Below the floor, no new issuance is permitted.
- StableZK
The Bounded-Dilution Proof
43.75% worst-case deficit. Bounded. Convergent. Survivable.
- StableZK
Phased Launch
$50M cap at Phase 0. Full GCSR by Phase 2.
- StableZK
Parameter Table
Every threshold, every ratio, every fee schedule.
- StableZK
Three Asset Classes
szUSD senior. szBOND subordinated. SZK absorbs last.
- StableZK
Immutable in Code
No admin function. Forking is the only path.
- StableZK
What Governance Can and Cannot Touch
The room votes on details. The ladder rungs are out of the room.
- StableZK
Narrow Surface Area
Fewer than 1,000 lines of consensus-critical code.
- StableZK
The View-Key Model
The holder authorizes a slice. There is no master key.
- StableZK
ZK Compliance Attestations
Prove the property. Disclose nothing.
- StableZK
The Warrant Model
Warrants attach to regulated counterparties, not to the protocol.
- StableZK
Per-Jurisdiction Notes
BSA, MiCA, the G20 perimeter — design considerations, not legal opinion.
- StableZK
Re-attestation Under Primitive Change
The protocol does the migration. The holder does not.
- Longevity
A. Recipe Index
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B. FAQ
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Methods and limitations
- StableZK
A. Recipe Index
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B. FAQ
- Substack
Crypto Rented a Seat. The ABA Built the Table
Following up on the Bloomberg piece on crypto I was quoted in today, and how it applies to the ongoing AI discussion.
- Substack
CSIS!
You’ll be seeing a bit of a change here...
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The New Latin Vulgate
What happens when the last copy of a book exists only inside a model behind a paywall
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The Fed Just Told You the Price of the Light Touch. Pay It Now.
What Governor Bowman’s FSB remarks mean for your bank, and the six things to do before your next exam cycle
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Has the Battle for Quantum Supremacy Already Been Lost? (2026 Update)
My 9 year anniversary update (I can't believe I wrote the first of this series in 2017!) - New thoughts, pulling the window forward and a coda for the GPU Maximalists
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The Kill Switch Is the Smoke Alarm, Not the Fire Code
Taking some questions Penny Crosman asked me and turning the smoke alarm comment into actions for bank boards
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Money Without a Master Key
This is the last post in the series. The hand-off to the long-form cookbook on sultanismyname.com. The shape of what’s there, the shape of what’s still open, and one number I want you to carry…
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The False Binaries
Five tradeoffs the industry treats as inviolable. Plus a sixth — deal with quantum later — that has the same problem the others do.
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Privacy and Compliance Aren’t Enemies
The most-private financial instrument in the world is also the most regulated. The framing of these two as adversaries is a category error inherited from a pre-cryptographic era. Anyone telling you ot
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Make the Waterfall Immutable Or Don’t Bother
The L1 has a name. Its name is StableZK. This is the post where we get specific about the part of bank resolution that already works and that crypto has refused to import for fifteen years.
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Bagehot Was Right
Stability is a commitment, not a circuit breaker — and every stablecoin that died in public died because it had the wrong one.
- Substack
Inside the Quantum Window
Why the people who could break Bitcoin aren't thinking about Bitcoin — and why that's the bad news.
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What if you could drop your biological age by 10 years — for under $3,000?
I Didn't Trust the Longevity Industry. So I Ran the Experiment Myself. Three years, three cohorts, under $3,000. Here's what the evidence actually says.
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Short commentary on the new US National Security Strategy
Why the 2025 National Security Strategy gets AI and technology investment right — and what the U.S. must do to make it operational.
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Has the Battle for Quantum Supremacy Already Been Lost? (2025 Update)
Why quantum computing now threatens RSA encryption, Bitcoin, and financial system security — and what the geopolitical race between the U.S. and China means for crypto investors and regulators.
- Substack
How I Use AI to Keep Up With AI: Real Work, Real Value
A practical guide to using AI tools — specifically local AI and custom news aggregators — to track AI news, research, and market signals without drowning in information overload.
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The FDIC Finally Discovers Fire: A Crypto Awakening Three Years (or more) Too Late
How the FDIC's belated embrace of crypto — three years after Bitcoin adoption exploded — reveals systemic failures in federal financial regulatory technology modernization.
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OpenAI’s Record-Breaking Fundraising: Navigating Valuation, Market Dynamics, and Future Growth
An expert breakdown of OpenAI's $6.6B convertible note round — what the valuation signals, what the structural hooks mean for its non-profit-to-for-profit conversion, and what comes next for the AI in
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Nvidia’s Earnings Are Strong, But The Road Ahead Looks Bumpy
Why Nvidia's $30B quarter masks a fundamental vulnerability: AI chip demand is transient, on-device processing is rising, and the datacenter buildout cycle is nearing its peak.
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More Than Techies: AI's Benefits for Real People
Countering AI skepticism with evidence: how artificial intelligence will lower food prices, improve healthcare outcomes, and reduce commute times for ordinary Americans — not just tech workers.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
Sovereign AI's Missing Pieces
The Palantir–NVIDIA deal validated the sovereign AI thesis, but exposed what most deployments still get wrong. Three gaps regulated institutions can't ignore.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
Sovereignty Theater
The AI sovereignty wars have begun. Almost everyone is measuring the wrong thing.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
What I Learned at the White House Lunar Interoperability Forum
Originally published by Frontier Foundry on May 17, 2024.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
Value in the Time of LLMs
Throwback Thursday: While this was released earlier this year, given the growth of our audience and the topics relevance, we thought it would be a good idea to bring it back from the archives!
- Frontier Foundry Substack
Reserve Capacity and the Emerging Competition Over Batteries
Throwback Thursday: While this was released in 2023, given the growth of our audience and the topics relevance, we thought it would be a good idea to bring it back from the archives!
- Frontier Foundry Substack
Balancing Innovation and Oversight in the Technological Era: The AI Governance Conundrum
Originally published by Frontier Foundry on January 29, 2024.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
You Don't Need the GPUs They're Selling You
Open-source projects prove memory bandwidth, not compute, is AI's real bottleneck. The GPU spending spree may be the biggest misallocation in tech history.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
AI Giants – Complete Series Directory
The complete directory for Frontier Foundry's "AI Giants" series, where we explore the successes and shortcomings of today's biggest AI companies.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
The Legal AI Security Illusion: How Vendors Sell Contracts Instead of Protection
The fundamental technical risk nobody in the legal AI industry wants to talk about, and what law firms should be asking in 2026.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
Software Will Be Free. So Why Are Banks and Hospitals Still Paying Like It's 1999?
Despite software development costs falling due to AI, the enterprise software market continues to profit from the systems they have created.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
AI, Data, and Client Confidentiality: The Legal Industry’s Privacy Dilemma
The legal sector's demand for AI-powered tools tailored to their industry continues to grow, yet privacy and data security concerns slow adoption.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
AI Giants Pt. 5: Microsoft's $80B Gamble
Microsoft has built the most comprehensive enterprise AI stack in the industry, but inconsistent adoption and mixed consumer reception may hold them back.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
Emerging Technologies for Community Banks
The banking sector's current technological revolution presents community banks with great opportunities to build their competitive advantage and grow.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
AI Giants Pt. 4: Perplexity's $20B Bet Against the Media Industry
Perplexity's emergence in AI search is being threatened by an onslaught of lawsuits from publishers claiming the company illegally accessed their materials.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
On-Chain Reconciliation for Tokenized Securities
The growing adoption rates of smart contracts by key financial institutions promises to streamline and transform traditional reconciliation workflows.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
AI Giants Pt. 3: OpenAI Sees Red
OpenAI issued an internal "code red" as competing models began gaining ground, revealing how perilous their market leading position truly is.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
AI Giants Pt. 2: How Google Fixed Gemini's Blurry Vision
A look into Google's history of AI development, Gemini's early struggles, and the 3.0 upgrade that made them one of the top competitors in the AI market.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
Part 2: AI-Driven Adaptability: Optimizing Trader Behavior for Hedge Fund Success
In today's complex economy, AI-powered analytics paired with human expertise can help provide hedge funds with a new edge to find success.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
AI Giants Pt. 1: Clouds and Consequences – When Claude Went Dark
Cloud AI systems are only as strong as their infrastructure. Explore how Claude's recent reliability crisis led to a rise in local model adoption.
- Frontier Foundry Substack
Part 1: The Competitive Edge: How AI is Transforming Hedge Fund Portfolio Management
Hedge funds sit at a critical juncture where privacy-preserving AI systems are unlocking powerful applications that promise to change the future of investing.
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