An introduction to my book, "Building a Production Quant Trading System", a practitioner's guide to the unglamorous 90% of systematic trading: why I wrote it, what to expect, and what not to expect.
A practical, end-to-end guide to moving a content site from WordPress to Next.js without losing your search rankings: the URL-preservation rule that governs everything, a content pipeline that survives the move, bilingual and RTL handling, the SEO and security work, and a cutover you can roll back.
How an ordinary teenager came to out-know Ptolemy, and why the same structural progress makes every one of us more ignorant than anyone who has ever lived. Hand a modern fifteen-year-old a blank sheet of paper and ask them to map the architecture of the cosmos, and they will sketch, without a moment’s hesitation, a
An Energy-as-a-Service Framework for Post-Conflict Syria Executive Summary This document presents a strategic proposal for utility-led distributed energy storage (DES) in post-conflict Syria, structured as an Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) framework. It draws on international evidence from pioneering programmes in the United States, Australia, Lebanon, and other markets, extracting both positive models and cautionary lessons to inform
Managed WordPress hosting is a tax you pay in money, in performance, and in security anxiety. Here is how I kept the WordPress editor I love, ran it locally for free, and served the public site as static HTML on the edge: a zero-dependency Node crawler I have open-sourced.
Navigating the 2026 Fiscal and Data Frontier The Great Recalibration: Structural Shifts in UK Property Taxation The administration of Non-Domestic Rating in the United Kingdom is currently undergoing its most profound structural transformation since the late 20th century. This shift, codified under the Non-Domestic Rating Act 2023, represents far more than a routine fiscal update:
The Carbon Ledger of Conflict Geopolitical Blind Spots in Global Climate Frameworks The global effort to mitigate anthropogenic climate change is currently operating with a significant structural deficiency: the systematic omission of military emissions from international governance frameworks. For decades, the global military-industrial complex has functioned within a regulatory blind spot, shielded by geopolitical sensitivities
The New Frontier of Real Estate Integrity Decarbonisation and the Residual Emission Challenge In the rigorous pursuit of net zero, the commercial real estate (CRE) sector has reached a defining threshold. While direct mitigation efforts, such as deep energy retrofits and the electrification of heating systems, remain the primary focus of credible climate strategies, an
The Valuation of Resilience: Navigating the RICS Global Standards for ESG in Commercial Property The inauguration of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Professional Standard (4th edition) in January 2026 represents a seminal moment for global real estate capital markets, occurring at a time when a ‘wall of capital’ is increasingly scrutinising the sustainability