Why I'm writing here
A short note on why this site exists and what I plan to do with it.
I built this site for one practical reason and one selfish one.
The practical reason is that LinkedIn is a poor home for the work I actually do. A GitHub repo is closer, but READMEs are written for engineers who already know the problem. The people I want to reach — internship recruiters, family-office principals, boutique IB analysts in Austin — read READMEs only after they have already decided to take you seriously.
So I needed a place that does what a good README cannot: explain the problem before the solution, show the reasoning before the result, and link the pieces together so a single project page tells the same story I would tell over coffee.
The selfish reason is that I write better when there is a possibility of being read. Notes I keep privately are honest but undisciplined. Published essais force me to finish a thought. They also force me to admit when I do not have one.
What you can expect here
Three kinds of writing. Essays are exploratory and personal, in the Montaigne sense. Analysis is structured writing on sports, commercial real estate, M&A, and finance — I plan a daily or weekly cadence on Austin M&A specifically. Notes are fragments: haiku, observations, things that are not ready to be more.
The site is also the public face of the work in progress on the sports model, the comps tool, the admissions model, the combat-model paper, and the brand transparency platform. When a project moves, the relevant analysis or essay will live alongside it.
If you found this through a cold email I sent you, the page that goes with it is /about, and my contact info is at the bottom of every page.
— Deep