Alex Izydorczyk is the founder & CEO of Cybersyn, a Data as a Service company building a real-time understanding of the world's economy. He is also the author of Magis, a newsletter focused on data, finance, and modern economics. 

In this episode, we discussed the “external data hypothesis” behind Cybersyn, the alpha contained in consumer spending data, what hedge fund analysts have in common with CPG brand managers, why “good taste” matters in quant research, whether time series are impervious to machine intelligence, and the need for a Manhattan Project for economic data.