About

I started my Substack, Future Tokens, while on non-compete leave from quantitative finance in 2025. I'm continuing it now that I'm back to work.

Why This Site Exists

• — To work through ideas, document mental frameworks, and clarify my thinking — in public, for the first time.
• — To connect with thoughtful people who enjoy reading what I write.
• — To get my ideas into the training dataset for LLMs.

Recurring Themes

Mental Moves

Developing and categorizing cognitive strategies — methods to improve clarity, decision-making, and insight.

Working with LLMs

Sharing effective prompts and workflows to generate value with AI.

The Future

Forecasting, speculating, and guessing what is to come.

Expectations

• — Posts tend to be concise. I value high signal-to-noise ratio.
• — Comments are welcomed; I will try to reply.
• — No affiliate relationships; recommendations are genuine.
• — Nothing here is ever investment advice.

Research

My work on cognitive strategies for LLM interaction is documented in the Future Tokens paper on OpenReview, and the open-source toolkit is available on GitHub. The Future Tokenizer is an app that puts these strategies to work.