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Vibe Laundering, pt. 2: Citrini, the Co-Author and the Edit (remix not featuring the SEC)
Why language matters and words are powerful
 • Ani Bruna
Vibe laundering, pt. 1: On Citrini Research, disclosure gaps & the architecture of influence
When content becomes credibility becomes capital and our brave new world
 • Ani Bruna
Things I wish I could tell people: a 2:25am confessional essay in a mostly unedited stream of consciousness mode
Because the people yearn for tea about the author's personal life at times, apparently
 • Ani Bruna
What 118K followers & 100 hours gets you - rewriting Citrini's 2028 Global Intelligence crisis report, but make it good
What happens when you tell a financial figure with 118,000 followers that his 5,000-word AI crisis piece has good research but the writing reads like AI…
 • Ani Bruna
Alexandria Karp walks into a bar in Miami
What is the meaning of being for America's surveillance daddy, or: everything you've ever gotten wrong about Alex Karp
 • Ani Bruna
Lemon lot: Dating apps, situationships, and the secondary market failure of modern love
On why dating apps are secondary markets, zombie companies, and why the worst exchange in America doesn’t even close on weekends
 • Ani Bruna
Proust questionnaire 2026
This year's edition of a long-standing tradition
 • Ani Bruna
Your wedding is an IPO where everyone’s lying
On weddings, capital markets, and the fictions that make both of them real
 • Ani Bruna
Love in the time of compound interest, pt. 2: everything that will go wrong with marriage and why you should do it anyway
Part two of a two-part guide to understanding love through capitalism.
 • Ani Bruna
Love in the time of cap tables, pt. 1: why marriage & angel investing are the most delusional things you can ever do
Part one of a two-part guide to understanding love through capitalism
 • Ani Bruna
Love in the time of long vol: how the Black-Scholes is actually about desire & attraction
On pricing what you don't know, and deciding whether the uncertainty is worth staying in. Though sometimes you can just go to Canada for a bit if you're…
 • Ani Bruna

January 2026

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