Federico Carrone's Blog
I am Federico Carrone, an entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology, finance, and culture. I created Ergodic Group, a privately held holding company through which I build and hold companies in distributed systems, cryptography, AI, gaming, and real assets. I operate with the conviction that digital infrastructure, capital markets, and cultural production are converging into a single strategic domain, and I focus on long horizon structures where time acts as a filter for quality, judgment, and durability rather than a constraint.
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Modern economic systems rest on two foundations: tools that expand productive capacity and institutions that define who controls their output. The internet transformed how information moves, but it did not reconstruct the institutional machinery that governs ownership and exchange. Digital economic life therefore expanded without a durable system of rights, enforcement, or jurisdiction. Blockchain networks, and Ethereum in particular, address this gap by embedding institutional functions in software and enforcing them through economic incentives and cryptographic verification.
Concrete is a systems programming language designed for safe and predictable code, with semantics defined by a small core calculus formalized and proven sound in Lean. It combines linear types, static capability tracking, and region-scoped borrowing to provide compile-time guarantees about resource usage and side effects.
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A practical guide through the landscape of type systems, from everyday generics to dependent types that prove correctness, with examples in Rust, Scala, and Idris
Many features of human experience that feel natural are historically produced. Individuality and consciousness belong to this category. They emerged through specific cultural practices to solve problems of coordination, responsibility, and long-term planning. Computation and capital now solve these problems faster, at larger scales, through external processes. As decision-making, memory, and meaning-production migrate into automated feedback loops, the inner self loses its function. These essays trace the construction of modern subjectivity and examine what happens as the conditions that produced it dissolve.
Ergodic Group is organized around the observation that certain systems change character through sustained engagement. In these systems, repetition refines execution, experience carries forward, and accumulated judgment reshapes future outcomes. Time is not neutral. It filters error, stabilizes standards, and reveals structural quality. Systems differ less in what they produce than in how they behave under repeated contact with reality. Contemporary society is accelerating across technical, cultural, and organizational dimensions. Cycles shorten, signals multiply, and coordination occurs under constant pressure to respond. This acceleration compounds itself, tightening feedback loops and compressing decision horizons. As pace increases, many structures continue operating while gradually shedding accumulated judgment and internal coherence. Activity persists while formation weakens. Systems appear functional even as their capacity to learn erodes.