Neel Somani's Blog

The BLAST Playbook

I argue that the $500B-1T in annual software investments should reallocate to BLAST: assets that monetize boredom, loneliness, and scarcity.

Feb 24 • 

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January 2025

Privatize the FDA

I advocate for privatizing the FDA by replacing its drug approval monopoly with a competitive market to reduce delays, lower costs, and foster…

Jan 11 • 

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December 2024

Race Science for Non-Racists

Science often avoids acknowledging our genetic diversity. I propose a discipline to holistically look at history, biology, culture, and psychology to…

Dec 9, 2024 • 

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October 2024

The New Economy

We have massively overallocated our youth to roles like software engineering and medicine - which will be shortly replaced en masse by AI. I propose how…

Oct 25, 2024 • 

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October 2023

A Year Around The Sun With Eclipse

I reflect on the Eclipse team's journey in building the Eclipse Mainnet, Ethereum's fastest L2. A reflection on rollups and challenges for the…

Oct 3, 2023 • 

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August 2023

Rollups-as-a-Service Are Going To Zero

The app-specific rollup space is poorly defined, so I have taken it upon myself to define the market landscape and explain the economics for the…

Aug 9, 2023 • 

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July 2022

An Alternate Interchain Security Proposal

This post outlines a Cosmos interchain security proposal that involves a CLI tool and a novel fee market, streamlining the process to launch an app…

Jul 6, 2022 • 

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April 2022

The Future of Terra DeFi

Terra is a rapidly growing blockchain offering UST, the largest uncollateralized stablecoin ever. In this post, I give recommendations to the Terra…

Apr 6, 2022 • 

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January 2022

Explaining to my parents what I do

My parents don't understand what I do as a quant, so I wrote this to help explain to them. This post goes into the basics of power pricing and the…

Jan 9, 2022 • 

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October 2020

How To Derive Useful Financial Approximations

Many useful financial rules of thumb can be derived using Taylor approximations. In this blog post, I solve for common approximation formulas.

Oct 16, 2020 • 

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October 2019

Three Controversial Beliefs About Living Things

I describe a few of my more unusual beliefs about evolution and the nature of living things. I think that evolution is frequently misunderstood.

Oct 24, 2019 • 

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