Books, notes, and recurring questions

AsAllocated

This is a home for the books, essays, and references that have shaped how I think about markets, institutions, and human behavior.

@asallocated Private + public markets

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Overview

A library organized by the questions I keep returning to.

Institutional finance notes shaped by leverage, cycle awareness, diligence, and system design.

Some of this is a library. Some of it is a notebook. All of it comes from wanting to understand how things actually work.

Focus

Secondaries, AI, cycles, diligence

Style

Research-led, analytical, personal

Bias

Signal over story, structure over noise

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Reading

Books and papers worth keeping close.

A permanent stack of works that stay useful after the cycle changes.

Book categories

Filter the stack by the questions each shelf helps answer.

Sources

Primary references and operating materials.

Reference points across market history, AI tooling, diligence, and liquidity structures.

Notes

Research drafts in progress.

Short essays and working ideas that can expand into longer pieces.