The holding company is named after long-run convergence. The software company builds systems where correctness is proved, not hoped for. The writing explores why patience, formation, and friction matter more than speed. These are not separate activities. The same conviction runs through all of them: what survives contact with time is the only thing worth building.

How I think

There is a difference between lived time and measured time. Measured time is uniform and exchangeable. Lived time accumulates. Each cycle alters what follows, and learning only happens there. Most of what matters gets lost when lived time is forced into metrics and deadlines. Running companies while believing this is the first contradiction. There are others.

During the day I work on formal systems, proofs, type systems, verified kernels, domains where correctness can be checked rather than argued. At night I read thinkers who say certainty is impossible. Rigor when building, ambiguity when thinking. I switch between the two more than I blend them. The book on my nightstand and the pull request open in my editor are usually arguing with each other.

I read Hayek on decentralized coordination and run a holding company. I write about patience and formation and track AI developments week by week. The company is named after long-run convergence. My own essays argue the long run might not exist anymore. Growing up in Argentina makes you suspicious of both difficulty as a filter and stability as a given. Broken money is not a test of character. It just breaks people.

Dignity is not administered. Responsibility cannot be dissolved into structure. Individuals precede institutions morally. And yet I build protocols designed to make individual judgment unnecessary, because systems that depend on everyone being good do not work. They assume people will defect if they can and make defection structurally impossible. The cost is that we end up building a world that does not need the kind of person worth building it for.

I care less about how systems should work than how they actually do. Who they serve, who they leave behind, why the distance between intention and outcome never closes. You watch institutions fail in real time. After a while you stop expecting the state to rescue anyone. Markets are one of the best coordination technologies humans have produced, but I am not naive enough to think they fix themselves all the time. What remains is building things whose guarantees are structural, not promissory. Code that enforces rules is more honest than any institution that claims to.

For years I thought building was enough. I am less sure now.

Ideas matter only insofar as they survive contact with reality over time.