THE RESEARCH NOTEBOOK

Follow the question.

Visual stories about money, markets, and time. Start with the question. Stay for the assumptions.

S&P 500 / ILLUSTRATIVE PE PROXY

1986TODAY
Market historyEXPERIMENT 001

$10,000 in 1986: S&P 500 vs. Private Equity

Actual S&P data compared with an illustrative PE proxy: a synthetic smoothed, lagged S&P-return model—not actual private equity index results.

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CONCEPT PREVIEW · ILLUSTRATIVE

CompoundingCOMING SOON

$100 every week vs. $10,000 today

Two ways to start. One question: how much does timing matter?

CONCEPT PREVIEW · ILLUSTRATIVE

THE FALL
Market historyCOMING SOON

Market crashes: buying before the fall

A closer look at the uncomfortable side of a long-term horizon.

CONCEPT PREVIEW · ILLUSTRATIVE

Market historyCOMING SOON

What if you missed the best 10 days?

A planned experiment on market timing, with assumptions made explicit.

Card charts are illustrative artwork, not plotted historical returns. Experiment 001 links to our Instagram profile; the full dataset and reproducible backtest are not hosted here.