About

I’m JM Chung.

What I’m Watching

We’re living through a compression of change that’s hard to fully grasp in real time. A handful of forces are colliding at once — AI compressing cognitive work, crypto restructuring financial rails, US tech policy reshaping global capital flows, and a quiet but massive shift in how systems are built and who controls them.

I watch these signals closely. Not because I have all the answers, but because the patterns matter — and most coverage either moves too fast to be useful or too slow to be honest.

Why I Built This

Signal Layer started as a personal forcing function. Writing is how I think. Publishing is how I stay accountable.

Most research disappears into closed channels — Discords, group chats, paywalled newsletters. I wanted a public record of how I’m reading the landscape: what I’m tracking, what I’m building, what I’m changing my mind on.

This isn’t a media publication. It’s a working document.

How I Think About What’s Coming

The tools are changing faster than the frameworks to understand them. That gap — between capability and comprehension — is where most of the interesting problems live.

I think the next decade is less about which technology wins and more about who builds the mental models to navigate the transition. That’s what I’m trying to work out here.

Get in Touch

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Watch on YouTube: jmchung-labs