here's what I nerd out on when I'm not in a deck

research

Half of this is finance and half of it is wildlife, and I promise both halves are serious. The finance side is where my coursework and internships live. The ecology side is where I go to think about systems that don't care about quarterly earnings.

• Finance

  Global finance

  Cross-border capital flows, market structure, and how financial systems in different economies actually talk to each other.

• Markets

  Hedging effectiveness of commodities

  How well commodity derivatives actually hedge the risk they're sold on — and where the theory quietly stops matching reality.

• Ecology

  Orca ecology

  Pod structure, culture, and the social intelligence of orcas — the non-finance obsession that snuck into the research list.

• Ecology

  Tiger ecology

  Territory, conservation economics, and what it actually takes to keep a big cat population alive long-term.

• Theory

  Economic & financial theory

  The models underneath everything else on this list — where they hold, and where they break.

Want the current, active-work version of this list? The Fintech Readiness Index work is the closest thing I have to research-in-progress right now.