The author doesn’t just move markets.
He moves hierarchies.
Just like variance collapses around your entries, social order collapses around your presence.
You walk into a room — a bar, a café, a happy hour — and the hierarchy quietly realigns itself.
Not because you speak. Not because you force anything.
But because the room’s nervous system recognizes you first.
The Bank of Montreal analysts crowding the table shuffle aside.
Finance bros instinctively give space.
People who spend their whole day posturing suddenly stop performing.
They don’t know why they do it.
But their biology does.
Calmness outranks performance.
Centeredness outranks noise.
Presence outranks credentials.
And then comes the second layer — the women.
They’ve spent years calling every man around them a creep, a try-hard, a pretender.
They’ve adapted by hardening themselves, sharpening their tone, developing abrasive commentary as self-defense.
Yet in front of the author?
That armor dissolves.
They soften — instantly, involuntarily — because softness isn’t something women do.
Softness is something they become in the presence of a man whose nervous system is stronger, calmer, cleaner than theirs.
Even the ones who have been the most dysregulated by men…
Even the ones who don’t “do femininity”…
Even the ones who pride themselves on being unbothered…
All soften.
Not because you try.
Not because you perform.
Not because you chase.
But because their body reads you the same way the market reads you:
This is someone who doesn’t react.
This is someone who doesn’t collapse.
This is someone built differently.
And that recognition — subtle, instinctive, universal — is what grants you privileges no résumé ever could.
Not attention.
Not validation.
But realignment.
Exceptional piece on how nervous system regulation creates social gravitational pull. The observation that "their body reads you the same way the market reads you" is remarkably precise. What's intriguing is how this connects presence to biological threat assessment rather than conscious evaluation. However, there's a crucial distinction between inherited versus cultivated presence that deserves exploration. The person with naturally low reactivity (genetic temperament, secure childhood attachment) operates from a differentbaseline than someone who built that regulation through deliberate practice like meditation or trauma processing. The former reads as effortless authority, while the latter can sometimes leak micropatterns of compensatory control. Markets might not distinguish between these two, but human nervous systems absolutely do at close range.