When I was a kid in Indiana, we washed my dad’s black station wagon while Paul Page’s voice carried the Indy 500 through our garage radio. From near 71st Street, if the wind cooperated, you could hear the actual race in the distance. This year I watched the Indy 500 live for the first time — and started thinking about how a regional ritual became a billion-dollar global spectacle. From the Radio in the Garage to a Billion-Dollar May

From the Radio in the Garage to a Billion-Dollar May

How a regional ritual became a global spectacle — and what that says about modern attention, money, and identity.

We often talk about information asymmetry as though it were a market concept. But modern institutional life increasingly operates inside something broader: asynchronous knowledge environments. Same underlying reality. Different timelines of knowing. The real trust question is not simply who knows. It is who controls when reality becomes publicly legible — and whether they’ve earned that right.

On Asynchronous Knowledge Environments

Trust, Timing, and Asymmetric Reality in the Age of AI and Bitcoin

Solidarity did not only oppose. It built. Churches, underground publications, mutual aid networks, communities of trust outside approved channels. I’ve been thinking about Poland, John Paul II, Bitcoin circular economies, and what “hope centers” might actually look like. New essay:

Solidarity, Hope Centers, and the Dream of Bitcoin Circular Economies

John Paul II, parallel trust, and the human communities money cannot build alone.