Fresh thinking

An evolving notebook on Data, Markets, and Analytics

This is the blog of Jacob Ferraiolo. I write about markets, economics, random coding projects, books, and anything else that interests me at the time. This blog is a structured attempt to continue learning, connect with like-minded people, and structure my thoughts. I don’t pretend to have much new to say. I write more to learn and express myself than I do to impart knowledge to others.

15Published posts
1Hands-on builds
10Recurring themes

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Interesting Links 2025-08-30

Aug 30, 2025 Posts

I’ve been inspired by Marginal Revolution to copy their post format of sharing a collection of links with a brief blurb for each. This allows me to share what I’ve been reading...

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Aug 30, 2025 Posts

Interesting Links 2025-08-30

I’ve been inspired by Marginal Revolution to copy their post format of sharing a collection of links with a brief blurb for each. This allows me to share...

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Apr 7, 2024 Posts

Why am I creating a blog?

I have been imagining creating a blog for probably a decade now and have looked into multiple times without ever pulling the trigger for several reasons:

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Topics I keep coming back to

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1 post Aug 30, 2025

Assorted links

I’ve been inspired by Marginal Revolution to copy their post format of sharing a collection of links with a brief blurb for...

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1 post Apr 7, 2024

Book_reviews

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2 posts Sep 20, 2024

Career

Standing out as a data engineer

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1 post May 17, 2024

Cryptocurrency

Overview

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10 posts Sep 20, 2024

Data

Standing out as a data engineer

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4 posts Aug 30, 2025

General

I’ve been inspired by Marginal Revolution to copy their post format of sharing a collection of links with a brief blurb for...

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1 post Dec 20, 2024

Podcast

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7 posts Sep 8, 2024

Prediction markets

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1 post Jan 27, 2025

Smartbookfinder

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TSA Trading Bot Series

The TSA Trading Bot Series explores building an automated trading bot for the TSA Passenger Volume market on Kalshi. It covers web scraping, data analysis, predictive...