Exploring the Art and Practice of Building what Compounds and Endures
The Antifragility Lab is a space dedicated to exploring antifragility and the craft of building what compounds and endures. From conceptual frameworks to heuristics and real-world observations across domains such as nature, business, and objects, it seeks actionable models that enable systems to withstand stress and improve as a result.
Antifragility is a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to describe systems that benefit from volatility, shocks, and disorder. While robust models aim to resist stress without changing, antifragile ones evolve through it.
The Heuristics section introduces foundational concepts used throughout the Lab.
The Field Notes gathers essays that explore lived experience through the lens of antifragility.
The Lab
About Me
I work at the intersection of systems, capital, and craft, where ideas are tested under real conditions. I strive to analyze these concepts through a practitioner’s lens, even when working through conceptual frameworks.
My professional life spans finance, investment, physical commodities trading, regenerative agriculture, and leadership roles across businesses and projects that are by design exposed to volatility: commodities markets, long-term assets, living systems, and human organizations. Over time, this has shaped a deep interest in how certain structures fail, while others adapt, compound, and endure.
Beyond my professional work, I am a husband and father. I spend much of my free time learning across disciplines: science, economics, and philosophy in particular, and thinking about how systems can be shaped to serve both people and the environments they depend on. I am also an amateur cook and a classic car enthusiast.
I have started The Antifragility Lab as a thinking space, alongside my efforts to apply the ideas explored here through my Applied Work.
My approach is pragmatic and cross-disciplinary. I draw from finance, ecology, philosophy, statistics, craftsmanship, and lived experience, favouring actionable heuristics, field observations, and first principles over abstraction for its own sake.
This is a place to examine assumptions, document patterns, and refine models for building things meant to last.
My Applied Work
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Regenerative Capital
Ecotierra Capital is a thematic, class-agnostic asset manager focused on deploying capital into regenerative value chains. Here, we focus on designing, funding, and overseeing agroforestry-related investments through a systemic, holistic approach.
This approach allows us to work with constraints such as socioeconomic factors, land degradation, logistics, and market volatility, rather than against them, enabling us to build antifragile business models.
My involvement as Managing Director with Ecotierra Capital builds on my operational role at its parent company, Ecotierra, where I serve as CFO. Together, these roles place me at the intersection of capital allocation and on-the-ground execution, within systems designed to operate under real-world constraints.
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Enduring Objects (Coming Soon)
Studio 964 is a design and media project focused on craftsmanship, durability, and objects built to improve through intentional use rather than degrade through consumption. Its work explores how material choices, proportion, and restraint shape both utility and meaning over time.
Studio 964 approaches physical artifacts as systems exposed to real constraints: time, wear, context, and use. Rather than restoring objects to a static ideal, it studies how use and patina can reinforce character, preserve intent, and allow form and function to evolve without loss of integrity.
Anchored by ongoing restoration projects and extended through writing, visual work, and curated projects, Studio 964 serves as a practical field of study on endurance, adaptation, and the gradual accumulation of value.
