DANIEL HATKE

OPERATOR || BUILDER || ADVISOR

Hi from Colorado. First, I am a husband and father to two beautiful souls.

Earlier in my career, I worked at two hedge funds, reaching the role of chief technology officer, and studied finance and investing at Columbia Business School. Today I operate two e-commerce businesses.

At Edge Operator, I share useful AI builds, the decisions behind them, and experiments in clearer thinking, with the details you need to try them yourself.

I also co-host the Unqualified Advice podcast with Sean Filipow.

I run Polyiota, an AI advisory.

Alongside my technical work, I write The Prometheus Dispatch, a Substack on civil society, the self, leadership, self-governance, and liberal democracy. It keeps returning to one question: who must we become to endure and deserve freedom?

I'm also building Kabu Research, an AI-native research platform and publication for Japanese small- and mid-cap equities.

That photo up top is from Nepal. The Himalaya can make anyone a good photographer. Having traveled to more than thirty countries, I also share some of my travel essays and photography here.

Two mantras I keep close:
Fear is more crippling than the consequences.
Self-pity has no utility.