jovancyy.com
"Man is too soon old and too late smart." - old german proverb
"a great tragedy in life, is being so timid, you don't play hard enough" - charlie munger
about
i like creating beautiful things. friendships, innovations, babies (in the future)
experience: anthropology, economics, startups
Nanyang Intelligence , intelligence studio at the intersection of macroeconomics, artificial intelligence, anthropology and energy allocation.
Ossus, artificial intelligence for cultural institutions.
writings
writings I use to guide my actions, and test real world thesises
00 life, love, optimism
- how to be happy2026-01-01 excitement for life, and immunity to adversity
- travel stories2026-02-24 lessons from my travels that will fix you.
- good people, resources, books2026-05-03 collection of greats: Lee Kuan Yew, Charlie Munger, etc
- the easiest way to quit any vice.2026-05-07 drinking, smoking, doomscrolling
- disciplinemog your dopamine system2026-06-09 in 2026, greed and overconsumption isn't cool anymore.
values & beliefs
intelligence
- it is our moral duty to accumulate knowledge (both lived, and secondhand), acting with good intentions without a good foundation leads to harm.
energy
- joie de vivre (a french phrase often used to express a cheerful enjoyment of life, an exultation of spirit, and general happiness) this usually comes from facing fear and the unknown with good people, with the end goal of creating genuine value for society.
integrity and honesty
- maximum productivity within a group occurs with the free flow of information. the easiest person to fool, is yourself. when you are honest, the only way to defend yourself is with fundamentals, which scales better in the long term.
- Intellectual honesty is rare and decisive. Most people avoid conflict and defend status. If you are willing to tolerate uncomfortable tension in the pursuit of truth, that compounds better than baseline talent. (Sarah Guo)
fun: risk appetite, pain tolerance, timing
- deep play, fun and happiness come from taking heavily asymmetric bets, the greatest
- a great tragedy in life is being so timid you don't play hard enough (Charlie Munger)
- pain tolerance allows you to jump into risk where others pull back
- low expectations & resilience allows you to be mentally free
- great comedy is timing
- the caveman trying to build an iphone is less funny than a caveman sharpening the stick
- evolution is a timing and execution
- good timing is a balance of risk, fear, uncertainty
environment, incentives, systems
- we are datapoints, the swarm and human hivemind is all that matters.
- when a good manager faces bad economics, the economics usually win. (warren buffet)
- Agency is a product of system design. People act when they have ownership, consequences, and upside. Incentives and inspiration are the highest leverage place to intervene. (Sarah Guo)
contact me
dm me on instagram or tiktok or linkedin if you really have to
"The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you're not careful it's too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth."
— Norm Macdonald
thanks marcel for teaching me how to html in 2023