For about 4 years now this Substack has been accumulating readers as I resolutely didn’t post anything to it. I’ll start to change that going forward.

Most readers will know me from my work in MEV, and probably my Twitter. Originally I expected to publish more writing related to MEV, but that didn’t turn out. Instead, I’ll occasionally post book reviews or other long form thoughts I have related. Sometimes it might be crypto related, but not always.

An example of the type of thing you might expect going forward is my review of Labatut’s masterpiece When We Cease to Understand the World, or my annual reading list. No promises, but I’m trying to write a book review twice a year. Check my reading lists if you want a sense of what I read: 2023, 2022.

If that is not your cup of tea then you should unsubscribe. I won’t be offended, as most of you were probably here for stories of onchain bot action anyway.

If that piques your interest enough to stick around then on the horizon as the inaugural (real) post here is a review of Boom, Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber’s excellent new book about bubbles and progress.