hey welcome to my digital garden. i'm tony -- a sicilian american software engineer. i study many subjects and have worked across a wide range of roles including software engineering, devops, devrel, finance, sales, marketing. I've worked at 2 YCombinator backed seed-stage startups and spent time at an italian restaurant/market/bakery. like many italians I have a passion for food, music, and drinking with friends and family. im at times epicurean and others stoic, but i am always growing intellectually, physically, and spiritually. i question everything, and seek answers rooted in hard truths and data. below you can find a portal to what I'm learning, what I'm thinking, what I'm eating, and what I'm doing. briefly -- currently im exploring generative media ai on products like myxels, decentralized financial systems on projects like OriginateX + Passthru Protocol. I study a lot of applied political theory, state level grand strategy, geopolitics, and history in addition to tech/crypto and so a natural curiosity for me lately has been network states.