So You Want to Be a Quant

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

May 4 • Samir Varma

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April 2026

The Conservation Law of Tax Alpha

A simple minded trader and theoretical physicist deconstructs Wall Street's current hottest product.

Apr 27 • Samir Varma

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The Mystery That Launched a Thousand Papers — Solved?

How a 40-Year-Old Puzzle Led Me to a Universal Law of Particle Masses

Apr 20 • Samir Varma

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The Tetrad Tour, Part II

Politics, Beauty, and Why We Don’t Get Nice Things

Apr 13 • Samir Varma

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The Tetrad Tour, Part I

What Falls Out When You Apply Four Lenses to Everything

Apr 6 • Samir Varma

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March 2026

The Tetrad

Four Lenses That Explain Everything (Including God)

Mar 30 • Samir Varma

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The Simplicity Tax

Why Retail Investors Pay More for Worse Products (And What It Reveals About the Limits of Behavioral Finance)

Mar 23 • Samir Varma

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A Reader's Guide to Quantum Theory Meets Gravity

What each chapter is about, what it establishes, and why you should care

Mar 16 • Samir Varma

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The Gatekeepers

Or, How Indians Didn't Just Export Indian Culture — They Decided What Western Culture Was

Mar 9 • Samir Varma

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The Conquest Nobody Planned

Or, How a Guy Who Has Seen Exactly Five Indian Movies Explains Why India Won Without Trying

Mar 2 • Samir Varma

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February 2026

AI X and the X of AI: Two Revolutions for the Price of One

Stephen Wolfram Was Almost Right

Feb 23 • Samir Varma

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The Emperor Has No Alpha

What Data Mining Reveals About Academic Finance

Feb 16 • Samir Varma

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