I love to write. My work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Adroit Journal, and several other literary publications. For a year, I was a syndicated writer for AllThatsInteresting.com.

Independently, I write on Quora and Medium. I was previously a sitewide Top Writer on Quora and my pieces there have 6+ million reads; I also founded Historical Tidbits, a history forum that boasts an excellent URL and 125,000 followers.

Some of these pieces date back to 2017, when I was a freshman in high school. Please pardon any rough edges.

Science and Statistics

• Biology, Genomics, and the Information Age. Originally published in the Harvard Science Review, although I’ve reposted it on my site for better formatting/readability. [Link] [2970 words]
• Why We Suck at Preparing For Pandemics. Post 1/2 in a series on pandemic bonds. Originally published in GEN on Medium. [Link] [1430 words]
• These Bonds Defend Against Pandemics. (Here’s Why They Didn’t Work Against COVID.) Post 2/2 in a series on pandemic bonds. [Link] [1700 words]
• “Prosecutor’s Fallacy” and the Hidden Dangers of Conditional Probability. [Link] [1310 words]
• Bayes’ Theorem and the Danger of Universal Testing. [Link] [460 words]
• Poisson Processes, Memoryless Distributions, and Applications of The Inspection Paradox. [Link] [2300 words]
• [Forthcoming] Superlinear Returns, Sampling, and Non-Stationary Multi-Armed Bandits.

Essays and Poetry

• The Crypto Hellespont: Why Now Isn’t The Right Time To Nationalize. Originally published in the Harvard Technology Review. [Link] [1500 words]
• Antifragile. Published in-print in West Trade Review, Spring 2021 issue.
• Heart & Tongue, Urban Metastasis. Published in Cathexis Northwest Press. [Link]

History

Some of my pieces below were (freelance) commissioned by John Kuroski for AllThatsInteresting.com, where they have received hundreds of thousands of reads.

• Juan Pujol García: How a Motel Owner Turned Into One of WW2’s Most Effective Double Agents. [Original Post] [Syndicated Publication] [1670 words]
• The Scottish Conman Who Created and Sold a Fake Country — and got off Scot-Free. [Original Post] [Syndicated Publication] [1400 words]
• Inside the Vajont Dam Failure, the 1963 Disaster that the Italian Government Could Have Prevented. [Original Post] [Syndicated Publication] [1460 words]
• Operation PBSuccess: How the CIA Overthrew Democracy in Guatemala. (Also, bananas.) [Original Post] [Syndicated Publication] [1340 words]
• The Story Behind the Worst Maritime Disaster in US History. [Link] [700 words]

A Miscellany Of Stimulating Mental Tidbits

Short-form morsels that you may enjoy consuming!

• “Reader’s view” on future of crypto. Published in the Wall Street Journal.¹ [Link] [230 words]
• Somatic Hypermutation: How the Human Body Undergoes the Process of Evolution Each Time it Orchestrates an Immune Response. [Link] [470 words]
• What’s the closest state in the US to Africa? (It’s not what you think!) [Link] [260 words]
• How Germany Coordinated London Bomb Raids Using BBC Big Ben Broadcasts. [Link] [250 words]
• The Campaign For North Africa: A 60 Day Board Game. [Link] [360 words]
• Edmund Haley’s Computation of the Surface Area of England and Wales. [Link] [290 words]