Gold Digger
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Research & Method

Gold Digger is built on a simple bet: that judgment under uncertainty is a trainable skill, and that an honest record of your calls is worth more than a lucky streak. These notes lay out the thinking.

Working Paper

Earned Conviction

A decision-science framework for the game — why the first session is a slow, synthetic OODA loop, why historical scenarios hide their identity until after your call, and why the headline score is calibration, not P&L.

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Research Note

The Free Leaderboard Paradox

Why the leaderboard stays free for everyone. The scoreboard is the growth engine and the integrity check — so we gate analytical depth, never the ranking itself.

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