Mickey Maini is an investor, operator and founder of The Solstice Laboratory, an independent research center applying physics-based models to markets, geopolitics, technology and systemic risk. Over three decades, he has operated across banking, industry, academia, and private capital, often at moments of significant economic and geopolitical transition. He has worked across the full system: how capital moves, how companies scale, how institutions respond to stress, and how investors protect and deploy capital when the rules begin to change.
The Entropy Trap turns that experience into a public framework for understanding system transitions: the rare moments when money, markets, technology and geopolitics stop behaving like a normal cycle and begin reorganizing into something new. Ongoing research and commentary are published through The Solstice Laboratory on Substack.