I made more new friends in a month in college than in a year after graduating. This experience isn’t unique and after moving to a new city I’m trying to learn how to better make friends. A rough formula is: Read more
My son isn’t even a year old and I’m already confused. I’d been prepared for the first year of dirty diapers and interrupted nights, but I hadn’t thought enough about our family values and the tradeoffs we will face. I’m Read more
When asked what they attribute their success to Warren Buffett and Bill Gates had the same answer: focus. Buffett and Gates’ focus lead to immense financial wealth, but as Sahil Bloom lays out beautifully in his book The 5 types Read more
90+% value comes from 10% of what we read. Here’s my summary of favorites from Jan-Feb 2025. Books Articles
Covering a few hundred miles of surface area, the San Francisco Bay itself is massive and the cities surrounding it sprawl even farther. Locals refer to the western side of the bay from San Francisco city down into Silicon Valley Read more
When a friend recently asked me what my favorite purchase of last year was, my answer was immediate: daycare! Why? Because daycare is a “tranquility transaction” and buys a new parent the two most important things Fleshing this out further, Read more
Centered around the District of Columbia, the DMV area is made up of DC, Maryland, and Virgina. While DC proper is only ~700,000 people, the Metropolitan Area is one of the biggest in the country with ~6.5M people. Beyond people Read more
In Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel says “your personal experiences with money make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.” This quote is about how each of us Read more
If one of the fastest ways to learn is reading, then one of the most important decisions we make is choosing what to read. Recently I’ve been thinking how to do thoughtfully curate what I read and have stumbled on Read more
90+% value comes from 10% of what we read. Here’s my favorites from November-December. Books Articles