Arik Shimansky
I develop ideas into products, ventures and transactions.
My work spans technology, strategy and complex markets. I have co-founded a business, structured transactions at Citi, directed investments and worked on business plans and growth.
I also pursue independent research through Synaptic Quanta, using AI and software tools to test ideas. I am open to the right working role or collaboration.
01 / Selected experience
A route through science, finance, technology and institutions.
My work has included a web business serving financial firms, risk modelling for infrastructure projects, institutional transactions and investment. I have also served as acting CEO of an algorithmic trading company and worked in technology and climate-related businesses.
02 / Current research · Published preprint
Valence Under Temporal Constraint
An Umwelt-Based Method for Predicting Felt Experience
An organism sometimes has to act before it can fully resolve what is happening. My preprint asks when valence could help guide that action. Its claim about felt experience depends on an explicit affective premise.
03 / Active inquiry · Synaptic Quanta
Can Complex Intelligence Emerge From Small Adaptive Systems?
An experimental inquiry into whether networks of relatively small adaptive components can develop capabilities that do not exist in the individual components. No public technical results have been released yet.
04 / Independent Ideas Lab
Synaptic Quanta
Synaptic Quanta is the independent ideas lab I founded. Its website brings together the research questions, published work and ways to contribute.
06 / Writing
My writing ranges from consciousness and AI to climate, careers and a 6,000-mile road trip across the United States. I am also a published poet.
07 / Contact
If you see a role, project or business where this experience could be useful, I would welcome a conversation. Research and writing enquiries are welcome too.