About this book

Bali State of Mind began as notes about a specific kind of vertigo: the moment the map you were handed stops matching the ground under your feet. Institutions that took decades to build now move faster than the people inside them, and capital, credentials and job titles all reprice on shorter cycles than they used to.

The book is the argument. This site is the working-out: a new piece most days on work, capital, health and the ground under your feet, each one written to stand on its own rather than as a chapter of something else. Where a claim turns on a fact, the number is in the piece - programme rules, published rates, statutory definitions - so a reader can check it without taking it on faith.

It is written for operators, founders, analysts and students who have already noticed that the standard advice was drafted for a world that has since changed, and who would rather have the reasoning than the reassurance.

Bali State of Mind is written and published by Julien Uhlig, whose work sits across regulation, capital and technology in a group of companies incorporated and operating in the United States and Europe. The essays and the book are one body of work: the book states the position, the archive tests it in public.

The book itself is available in print and digital. If you want the argument in one sitting, start there; if you want it pressure-tested, read the archive.