About Me, the Complexity Melter

My journey across job and life toward professional awareness

This is not an article. This is who I am as a professional.

It takes years, many years, to understand the journey you’re in. When it happens, you write to consolidate your discoveries.

After twenty-four years in the information technology (IT) industry, I’ve realized that software is paramount but not the core of the future business.

The core is and will be the thinking capability. Those who can think efficiently will stay in the business, while generative artificial intelligence will replace those who cannot.

In Most Complexity Is in the Beholder’s Eye, I drafted a definition of thinking efficiently, but now, let’s start from the beginning!

Back in the 2000s, my first job

I started working during the .com bubble and experienced the root cause of the subprime mortgage crisis.

It was the .com era. After graduating with a degree in Physics, I started working as an econophysicist in a company that produced software and services for financial institutions.

My job was crafting mathematical models to price complex financial assets. It was exciting and scary simultaneously…