Synapses Fest

Mind Crunches #35: Vectors 2026

On angel investing, world building, predictions and accountability

Dec 28, 2025 • Vassilis

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November 2025

Mind Crunches #34: On Civilizational Technologies

Bubbles, prediction markets and batteries

Nov 18, 2025 • Vassilis

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June 2025

Mind Crunches #33: The Modern Middle Ages

Winning and losing at the Geopolitical Monopoly game

Jun 21, 2025 • Vassilis

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April 2025

Mind Crunches #32: Sensemaking The World

AI Governors, Stablecoins and Robert Moses

Apr 6, 2025 • Vassilis

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March 2025

Mind Crunches #31: Sensemaking The World

Glocalization, philosopher agents and Abundance

Mar 16, 2025 • Vassilis

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February 2025

Mind Crunches #30: Lessons Life Has Taught Me

Life principles. Experiential patterns, definitely not advice!

Feb 9, 2025 • Vassilis

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December 2024

Mind Crunches #29: An Almanack for 2025

Anticipate the unlikely. The unbelievable has become commonplace. Accelerate

Dec 28, 2024 • Vassilis

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November 2024

Mind Crunches #28: Links to Finetune Your LLM

📌 Mind Crunches

Nov 5, 2024 • Vassilis

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August 2024

Mind Crunches #27: Increasing State Capacity With Crypto

Alternatively: Hayek would be a degen

Aug 20, 2024 • Vassilis

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May 2024

Mind Crunches #26: Meditations on Culture, Crypto & Synthetic Data

💡Meditations

May 12, 2024 • Vassilis

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April 2024

Mind Crunches #25: Meditations on Tech, Decentralization & Complexity Theory

In search of an intellectual punctuated equilibrium

Apr 30, 2024 • Vassilis

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December 2023

Mind Crunches #24: In Retrospect

💡Things I Learned In 2023

Dec 29, 2023 • Vassilis

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