Projects
Small bets, shipped publicly.
Tools and experiments built to make investing, reading, websites, and data slightly less painful.
All projects
- EpicyclesDraws a treble clef, a word, a picture or your own doodle with spinning circles, and plays the drawing as notes in C major.Art
- Merger arbitrage calculatorEnter a merger or tender offer's numbers and see what probability of closing you need for the spread to pay off.Investing
- Spiral PortraitDraws a picture with one continuous spiral line, like Claude Mellan's 1649 engraving, in six media from burin to thread.Art154 visitors a month
- What changed your life?A community-voted chart of the habits, supplements, books and routines people say changed their lives.Wellbeing4.4K visitors a month
- Sentence LengthsPlots each sentence by word count, so you can spot runs of sentences that are all the same length.Writing
- TrackingAlpha.appEvery live US cash merger in one list, and the ones you hold checked every day: what changed, what's still pending and what you need to do by when. Waitlist open.Investing
- Multiple X-RayWorks a valuation multiple backwards to show the growth it implies and how much of the price rests on cash flows years away.Investing
- Text as MusicColours each sentence by its length, so you can see and hear the rhythm of your writing.Writing537 visitors a month
- FindMyMoat.comA community-picked list of investing tools and research resources.Investing17K visitors a month
- RoastMyWeb.comAn AI audits your website and returns specific UX, conversion, and SEO fixes in a few minutes.Websites2.5K visitors a month
- ReadStats.comPrivate charts and stats built from your Goodreads history.Reading530 visitors a month
- Cuentos-zen.comShort zen stories, Buddhist tales, and koans to read slowly.Wellbeing940 visitors a month