i've spent twenty years building things that run without me: trading systems, then blockchains, now agents.
high-frequency trading first, then blockchain, then machine learning, and always the same itch: build the thing that runs itself. these days that's crypto and ai, and we ship it through two studios. off the clock it's a Ricoh GR in one pocket, an e-gravel bike, a boat when there's wind, shelves of ambient records, and a black cat the internet knows as robocat. vm@hyperflex.studio
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Off the clock
i keep three shelves, russian moral fiction, esoterica, cosmic sci-fi, and they all circle the same question: what survives the self. The Brothers Karamazov, VALIS, the Dune trilogy.
i go for cinema where the frame is a threshold, a Zone, a sentient ocean, another person's face, and crossing it dissolves whoever crossed. Tarkovsky's Stalker and Solaris, Bergman's Persona, Kubrick's 2001.
i want the world to answer back, so it's authored writing and reactive choice over spectacle, and difficulty only when it means something. CRPGs at the ceiling, Disco Elysium just beneath, Baldur's Gate 3, The Witcher 3, Dark Souls.
the beatless, glacial end of electronic, drone and ambient with no pulse to hold, sound as weather rather than song. Biosphere, Stars of the Lid, Tim Hecker, Laraaji.