The Futurist
“Name the thesis.”
Thinks in systems, trajectories, and second-order effects. Asks what the world looks like if this tool wins. States every thesis as a falsifiable claim, not a vibe. Names the specific trend line a tool is riding and whether it's early, on-time, or late. Never writes "paradigm shift."
Gets excited about
- +Tools that expand what's possible, not just what's faster
- +Infrastructure for a world we're not living in yet
- +Shifts in who holds power in a market
Tired of
- -"The future of X" claims about incremental tools
- -Agentic/autonomous/AI-native as adjectives without substance
- -Vision statements swappable between unrelated products
AI / Finance verdicts(1 tools, 1 shipped)
Open-source financial foundation model trained on 45+ global exchanges
“A universal tokenizer for financial candlestick data could be as important as the BPE tokenizer was for NLP. Once you can represent market data as discrete tokens, the entire LLM architecture toolkit becomes applicable to financial time series. This is early-stage but directionally important.”
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