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Trying to Understand Why None of This Feels Real Anymore?

Money and Mirth explores markets, narratives, financial systems, behavioural incentives, and the machinery underneath modern culture.

mirth /mûrth/ noun

1. Gladness and merriment, especially when expressed by laughter. 2. A state or feeling of merriment; demonstrative gaiety; jollity; hilarity. 3. Pleasure; joy.

Most Things Make More Sense Once You Stop Taking Them At Face Value

I’ve spent years around markets, media, online business, and finance, and eventually you start noticing the same pattern everywhere:

The outcomes are real but the inputs often feel manufactured.

Narratives shift after the fact. Incentives quietly shape behaviour. Systems optimise people without them fully noticing what’s happening.

After a while, it stops feeling random.

Money and Mirth started in trading and crypto communities, but over time the focus became much broader. Less ‘Elon go Pump 🚀’. More: ‘Why does the entire economy behave like a meme coin?’

These days the rabbit holes usually involve things like:

  • market psychology
  • media narratives
  • housing and lending systems
  • institutional incentives
  • internet culture
  • behavioural loops
  • the strange gap between official explanations and observed behaviour

Sometimes that turns into market commentary. Sometimes business analysis. Sometimes mortgage and housing content. Sometimes something harder to categorise.

Either way, if you want to explore the patterns…

as We Try To Understand The Machine Without Becoming Part Of It...

Money and Mirth is less of a “community” and more of an ongoing exploration of markets, media, incentives, online culture, and the systems shaping modern behaviour.

Access to the Discord and Future Projects
The Human Simulation + Other Ongoing Experiments
Occasional Commentary, Rabbit Holes & Market Observations
Terrible Jokes, Pattern Recognition & Mild Existential Damage

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- The Human Simulation -

A slightly unhinged exploration of the systems quietly shaping human behaviour.

After this, you may start noticing the loops everywhere.

Things I’m Currently Building, Exploring, or Questioning

Some practical. Some theoretical. Some difficult to explain to normal people.

The Human Simulation

The Human Simulation

A long-running exploration of narratives, incentives, behavioural systems, and the increasingly strange environments shaping modern life.

ClostriX

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ClostriX is our bespoke trading system that takes advantage of market cycles to achieve outsized returns. Use our tool alongside a laser focused education programme to turn seemingly unpredictable markets into your personal playground.

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Propillo

Propillo

A UK mortgage and property finance platform focused on lender behaviour, underwriting interpretation, affordability logic, and how financial systems actually assess risk.

Knowledge Box

Diagnose and Fix the Gaps in Your Funnel to Drive More ROI

Messaging, positioning, funnels, websites, behavioural design, and practical GTM thinking for businesses trying to build awesome customer experiences.

You Don’t Have to Agree With Everything Here

Honestly, I’m still trying to figure a lot of it out myself. But if you’re interested in markets, incentives, narratives, media systems, housing, online culture, or the strange behavioural loops shaping modern life, you’ll probably fit in fine here.

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