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Why Infrastructure Is the Most Underrated Asset Class for Students to Understand

Most finance students fixate on equities. Infrastructure — with its regulated returns, long duration, and inflation linkage — teaches you something different about how capital actually works at scale.

February 1, 2025·financeinfrastructureinvesting
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What Building a Maglev Model Taught Me About System Constraints

Passive magnetic levitation looks elegant in theory. In practice, it forced me to understand why every real-world transportation system is really a system of trade-offs, not optimizations.

November 12, 2024·engineeringmaglevsystems-thinking
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The Engineer-Investor Mismatch — and Why It Creates Opportunity

Engineers who evaluate infrastructure projects and investors who finance them rarely speak the same language. That gap is where deals get mispriced — and where people who understand both sides can add real value.

August 20, 2024·financeengineeringinfrastructurecareer
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