Federico Carrone
I build and write at the intersection of technology and culture. More than a decade ago I founded LambdaClass, where we make Ethrex, Concrete, and Lambdaworks, and with our partners we built pamm.wtf: billions of dollars flow through these systems every month. Over the last two decades, with the teams I’ve worked with, I’ve helped build systems used by millions of people across different industries. On the culture side I’m building 421, a magazine about culture and technology. I direct the academic committee of the Centro de Criptografía y Sistemas Distribuidos at the University of Buenos Aires, and through Ergodic Group I hold companies across distributed systems, AI, gaming, wine, and culture. Here I write about things that take a long time to play out.
Earthrise, Apollo 8, 24 December 1968. Photo: William Anders, NASA, public domain.
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We Won the Elections at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Engineering
A small organization founded by a handful of engineering students now holds a majority of the elected representatives at the University of Buenos Aires' Faculty of Engineering.
Election session at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires.
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When Civilization Escapes the Human
Most analyses of how AI will impact society focus on the economy. Why we should focus not only on the economic impact of artificial intelligence, but also on purpose and agency.
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Solving Futbol Like Chess
European futbol optimized what is measurable and converged on a monoculture. On variance, the duel, deep blocks, and the danger of optimizing proxies.
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Nutrition Labels for Trust
Vitalik Buterin wants trust nutrition labels for software. Concrete shows what the machine-and-math half looks like when the compiler produces it instead of a vendor writing prose.
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- Notes on permanence, time, and ergodicity The philosophical foundation behind everything else.
- The missing institution of the Internet Why Ethereum matters as infrastructure, not speculation.
- The Tail Hedge Debate: Spitznagel Is Right, AQR Is Answering the Wrong Question The practical portfolio case for convexity.
- Finance Is Geometry, and It All Comes Back to Jensen’s Inequality Compounding, Kelly, Jensen, and survival.
- The Death of the Inner Self On consciousness, identity, and what technology dissolves.
- Friction as Luxury: What We Lose When AI Gives Us What We Want Why scarcity and difficulty create value.
- Fede’s Guide to a Healthier Life An ordered, evidence-based health guide for nerds.
