My most spontaneous moments have all been planned. A few recent examples are an unexpectedly deep conversation with a friend, experimenting with Web3 projects, and surfing a wave while paddling out. Each activity took an unexpected turn, but what made them magical was my complete focus on what was happening. Read more
“It takes a long time to become an overnight success” – attributed to various sources. Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player ever, but in this video, he explains how focusing on the results of his fabled career is missing the point. Instead focus on his years in the gym. 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
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
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
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
Wilt Chamberlain was one of the best basketball players in history, yet he actively chose not to be better. Why? As Malcom Gladwell described in an excellent podcast, Chamberlain chose to limit himself to shooting free-throws via the less efficient overhand method as switching to underhand free-throws would change his Read more
Our biggest goals can be daunting because of the time, effort, or money to accomplish. Instead of using brute force motivation, I focus on breaking problems down into easier sub-goals. I refer to this as chunking after its analog in psychology and my approach has five parts Identify my long-term Read more
The best pizza I’ve ever eaten is a 5 min walk from my apartment, but my wife and I chose to rarely go there. While this may sound like a mistake, it’s a deliberate decision we made because going less often actually makes us appreciate the experience even more. This Read more