Business
Innovation, execution, persuasion, resilience, and scale.
Research, writing & strategy
I study the patterns behind extraordinary success.
I’m Ian Greer, a writer, investor, and operator distilling the best ideas in business, finance, power, and human nature.
Business✦Investing✦
Political Strategy✦Human Nature✦
01 / Selected writing
Ideas worth keeping.
Field notes on the people, decisions, and systems that shape outsized outcomes.
02 / The book
Hundreds of lives.
Hundreds of lives.
One blueprint.
Most biographies read like singular stories. Read enough of them and the same patterns begin to surface. The Blueprint distills 27 of those recurring behaviors across business, investing, and political strategy into a practical operating system for ambition. The early review edition is available to read or listen to now.
Investing
Markets, money, cycles, risk, patience, and asymmetric bets.
Political strategy
Power, incentives, coalitions, perception, and human nature.
Conviction,
compounded.
Elwood Research is an independent research firm covering digital assets and technology equities—turning primary sources, on-chain data, filings, and unit economics into clear, decision-useful research.
Coverage
Concentrated by design
Mandate 01
D/A
Digital assets
The monetary layer of the internet.
- Monetary assets
- Blockspace
- Stablecoin rails
- Market structure
Primary sources
On-chain data
Mandate 02
T/E
Technology equities
The infrastructure of intelligence.
- AI infrastructure
- Semiconductors
- Hyperscale compute
- Frontier technology
Filings
Unit economics
Primary sources
On-chain data
Filings
Unit economics
04 / About Ian
Learn broadly.
Learn broadly.
Think independently.
Act decisively.
I’m a program manager, investor, and writer based in California. My work sits at the intersection of strategy, finance, technology, and human behavior.
I read roughly 100 books a year, then pressure-test the best ideas against the real world. This site is where I publish the conclusions: sharp, practical lessons without the filler.