thinking.farm

I am an academic historian and venture-backed founder.

I use Thinking Farm to share my reflections on history and technology. I primarily write short essays, but periodically share longer research articles, reviews, and media publications.

Currently, I am a Ken Griffin Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The founder and CEO of Citadel established the fellowship to support Applied History research. Previously, I was the founding executive director of Hoover’s Applied History Working Group, and before that I received an AB and AM from Harvard, where I won the Joseph Fletcher prize, and was a PhD student at Stanford.

My specialty is computational history and network science. I am currently writing about stablecoins, banknotes, the future of LLMs, global imbalances, and the rise and fall of the historical profession.

When not writing, I am also the co-founder of FourWinds Research, a bespoke advisory partnership offering historical perspectives on the future of digital money, and I design software protocols for Buttonwood,

You can message me on Twitter @mrinconcruz, LinkedIn or via email at hello at thinking.farm