I advocate for privatizing the FDA by replacing its drug approval monopoly with a competitive market to reduce delays, lower costs, and foster innovation.
January 10, 2025 - fda, longevity, privatization, economics
Neel Somani's Blog
Science often avoids acknowledging our genetic diversity. I propose a discipline to holistically look at history, biology, culture, and psychology to explain traits based on ancestral lineages, enabling individuals to command better control of themselves.
December 8, 2024 - nutrition, health, longevity, biohacking
We have massively overallocated our youth to roles like software engineering and medicine - which will be shortly replaced en masse by AI. I propose how the working population should reallocate.
October 24, 2024 - economics, agi, artificial intelligence
A Year Around The Sun With Eclipse
I reflect on the Eclipse team's journey in building the Eclipse Mainnet, Ethereum's fastest L2. A reflection on rollups and challenges for the app-specific rollup thesis.
October 2, 2023 - eclipse, l2, svm, rollup
Rollups-as-a-Service Are Going To Zero
The app-specific rollup space is poorly defined, so I have taken it upon myself to define the market landscape and explain the economics for the uninitiated.
August 8, 2023 - rollups, rollups-as-a-service, OP Stack, RaaS, L2aaS, app rollups
Introduction to Eclipse: Customizable, Modular Rollups
The fastest chains today can’t accommodate the throughput requirements of web2 applications. Eclipse scales blockchains horizontally with customizable, modular rollups using your VM of choice on any chain.
September 27, 2022 - eclipse, l2, svm, rollup, cosmos, modular
An Alternate Interchain Security Proposal
This post outlines a Cosmos interchain security proposal that involves a CLI tool and a novel fee market, streamlining the process to launch an app chain.
July 5, 2022 - app chains, interchain security, atom, cosmos
Terra is a rapidly growing blockchain offering UST, the largest uncollateralized stablecoin ever. In this post, I give recommendations to the Terra ecosystem and propose Terranova: an EVM on Terra.
April 5, 2022 - terra, luna, terranova, evm, defi, crypto
Explaining to my parents what I do
My parents don't understand what I do as a quant, so I wrote this to help explain to them. This post goes into the basics of power pricing and the electricity market.
January 8, 2022 - quantitative research, economics, math, optimization, power
How To Derive Useful Financial Approximations
Many useful financial rules of thumb can be derived using Taylor approximations. In this blog post, I solve for common approximation formulas.
October 15, 2020 - quantitative research, economics, Taylor approximation
Three Controversial Beliefs About Living Things
I describe a few of my more unusual beliefs about evolution and the nature of living things. I think that evolution is frequently misunderstood.
October 23, 2019 - philosophy, philosophy of science, evolution, biology
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