My Dad and I went to Grand Teton, Yellowstone, and Glacier National parks this summer. Despite these parks’ stunning beauty, some of my favorite moments were driving to them. This was because for the first time since I’d graduated college, I spent multiple hours with my Dad and nothing else. Read more…
“All models are wrong, some are useful” – George Box In March 2020, the US was first coming to terms with CoVID-19. Everything was rapidly changing and to process it, I started journaling every other day. I’d recently listened to Annie Duke’s podcast on thinking in probabilities so while journaling, Read more…
A 40-50 hour work week is ~50% of our waking hours. It’s why so many of us make our best friends and even meet our spouses at their office. In March/April 2020 though, COVID-19 threw this all on its head. A sizable minority (~35% of US workers) began working remotely, Read more…
Growing up I thought that all you needed to do to get cash was go to the bank and put your magic card into the machine. Thankfully after graduating with a finance degree, I learned there was a little more to this equation. Imagine for a second that this change Read more…
Leaders at work make or break an experience. Great leaders can inspire people to do incredible things, while poor leaders can lead to people counting seconds until work is done or even causing people to give up and quit. While we’ve all had a few leaders who sucked, here’s a Read more…
Building off one of the best books I’ve ever read – The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, here are some personal rules for building wealth. Note these rules aren’t perfect and if you create your own, they won’t be either. What you want to strive for is repeatable rules Read more…
Senior year of high school, I didn’t want to apply to Notre Dame. My older brother (attending his sophomore year) convinced me to apply, and 10 years later I’m a proud alumnus. In honor of college football season kicking off, I wanted to walk through a few reasons why I Read more…
After college graduation, my parents’ assured me I had a “good job”, but I felt sick to my stomach. What if three months in I hated my job or worse; what if it led to a dead-end in my career? Since then, I’ve switched jobs inside the same company a Read more…
Yesterday I told my friend “I think in bullet points”. Initially it was a joke, but the more I dwell on it, the truer it rings because: Short bullets are easy for people to read Bullets’ spoken parallel (two to three short sentences) is similarly easy to understand To write Read more…
Until college, I was deathly afraid to say “I love you” to anyone other than my Mom. These three words mean so much, yet we often don’t share our warm feelings with those around us. In my case, my hesitance was a fear of being called a loser, a girl, Read more…