Human Invariant https://humaninvariant.com Human Invariant RSS feed Seattle is a Great City https://humaninvariant.com/blog/seattle Date notwithstanding Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Story of Axiom and the Future of $100M Companies Built in Under a Year https://humaninvariant.com/blog/axiom The fastest YC company to $100M and the evolving metagame for elite startups Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Retrospective on 30 Days of Daily Blogging + Updates https://humaninvariant.com/blog/nov-2025 Onwards Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT On Learning Through Presence https://humaninvariant.com/blog/presence Connecting the invisible dots Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Scale of the Internet https://humaninvariant.com/blog/scale Inspired by Scale of the Universe Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Era of Data-Driven Ideas https://humaninvariant.com/blog/data-driven-ideas Legibility creates velocity Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Ideas to Incentivize and Scale More Blogs https://humaninvariant.com/blog/blog-incentivize-scale Scaling new blogs and alleviating blog decay Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Where is the blogosphere? https://humaninvariant.com/blog/blogosphere Decline or diffusion? Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Anti-Straussian Ceiling https://humaninvariant.com/blog/ceiling Solve for the ___ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Notes on Meeting Successful Bloggers In Person https://humaninvariant.com/blog/blogger-notes 17 observations on habits, personalities, and worldviews Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT The YouTube Search Bar as Deliberate* Incompetence https://humaninvariant.com/blog/youtube-search On cultural polish and care Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT An Interview With a YouTube Writer Behind 500M+ Views https://humaninvariant.com/blog/youtube-interview Understanding YouTube's Platform Mechanics, Content Dynamics, Talent, and Market Structure Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Why am I more productive late at night? https://humaninvariant.com/blog/night-work 6 anecdotal explanations Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Why are late night conversations better? https://humaninvariant.com/blog/conversations 5 explanations Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT the lowercase aesthetic as cultural liberation https://humaninvariant.com/blog/lowercase messages from a typewriter Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Prediction Markets as a Libertarian Black Box https://humaninvariant.com/blog/pm-box AI is communist, prediction markets are libertarian Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Intent-Based Aggregators for Prediction Markets https://humaninvariant.com/blog/pm-intents Why intent-based aggregators will dominate retail prediction market volume Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Novel Interface Designs for Prediction Markets https://humaninvariant.com/blog/pm-interface Problems and potential design solutions for market interfaces Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Future of Play Money Prediction Markets https://humaninvariant.com/blog/pm-play The Wikipedia model Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Prediction Market Prices != Probabilities https://humaninvariant.com/blog/pm-prices Context is that which is scarce Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Why did it take so long for prediction markets to find product-market fit? https://humaninvariant.com/blog/pm-pmf 7 explanations Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Case For Alternative Ordering Mechanisms in Prediction Markets https://humaninvariant.com/blog/pm-ordering Priority batch auctions as one better market structure to create more liquid prediction markets Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Prediction markets are leaking $78M annually https://humaninvariant.com/blog/pm-leak 15 million free riders and counting Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Blame as a Service (BaaS) https://humaninvariant.com/blog/blame Productized scapegoating Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Markers of High Agency https://humaninvariant.com/blog/agency-markers 38 observations Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Against the Agency-Maxxing Industrial Complex https://humaninvariant.com/blog/agency The Structure, Incentives, and Negative Externalities of “You Can Just Do Things” Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Derivative Work Level Notes https://humaninvariant.com/blog/d-work-notes 21 assorted thoughts on derivative levels Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Why do people who get paid the most do the least? https://humaninvariant.com/blog/3-d-work Third derivative work Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Financial Markets 2 https://humaninvariant.com/blog/markets-2 12 observations and opinions on financial markets Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Financial Markets https://humaninvariant.com/blog/markets Exchanges and brokerages from first principles Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Incentive-Compatibility is Overrated https://humaninvariant.com/blog/incentive-compatibility Path-dependency protects us from ourselves Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Never Reason from a Price Change, Culture Edition https://humaninvariant.com/blog/price-change Save us, Sumner Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Architecting Reality https://humaninvariant.com/blog/worldbuilding The best way to predict the future is to build it Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Title Arbitrage as Status Engineering https://humaninvariant.com/blog/titles How novel titles reshape talent allocation Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Lessons From Poker https://humaninvariant.com/blog/poker 12 learnings and takeaways Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Steelmanning The Case For Consultants, Affirmative Action, and Alcohol https://humaninvariant.com/blog/steelmanning The strongest counterarguments against increasingly popular beliefs Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Omniscient Entities https://humaninvariant.com/blog/omniscient Thank you for increasing my blogging ambitions Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Why hasn’t there been a new major sports league? https://humaninvariant.com/blog/sports-leagues The market structure and incentives of US sports leagues Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT How to scale a venture fund, lessons from FTX Ventures https://humaninvariant.com/blog/ftx-ventures Investing in Anthropic, Cursor, Figma, Circle, Solana, Sui by breaking the rules Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Notes on Shadowing a Hospitalist https://humaninvariant.com/blog/hospitalist 16 observations on hospital culture and incentives Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Don’t Build an Audience https://humaninvariant.com/blog/audience Great work always finds the people who matter Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Career Advice That Doesn’t Suck https://humaninvariant.com/blog/career Work harder, bet bigger Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Hyper-Optimized Children https://humaninvariant.com/blog/hyperoptimized For many parents, hyper-optimization is the preferred method for brute-forcing their children out of mediocrity. Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT No One is Really Working https://humaninvariant.com/blog/working No One is Really Working: Justifying the High Salaries of Early-Career Professionals Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Why You Should Be More Cynical https://humaninvariant.com/blog/cynical Clinton Foreign Policy, $TRUMP and $MELANIA, and the Foundations of the Internet Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Your Life is More Over Than You Think https://humaninvariant.com/blog/time Nonlinear Perception of Time Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT