I recently stumbled upon a new video from Veritasium on YouTube about the 80/20 rule. My last post was a bit of a rant, however, this video only got me thinking about the 80/20 rule once again. This time, I started thinking about finance, or rather, trading stocks. A while back, I and a friend…

Last night we took our daughter to urgent care. She has another ear infection! After the ear tubes have been inserted, no less. It breaks my heart when she’s sick. She is a tough cookie – you don’t really know how sick she might be. Suddenly, pus dripping from her ears. She was in good…

I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up. If only I could rely on my age as an excuse for indecision; alas, I am an adult… with a kid. As mentioned in my previous post, sometimes I think about risk, which causes me to think about how to mitigate risk, which…

I’m going to do two posts today because, fuck it, I’m having fun. A few years back my buddy recommended I read Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb. This book is astounding. It fundamentally changed my world view and how I perceive decision making. Read it. I often think about risk in everyday situations. Rather,…

I’ve started reading Cultures of Growth by Mary C. Murphy. I’ve always aspired to be someone with a “growth mindset”. I was turned on to this book by Adam Grant’s podcast, Rethinking. Mary spoke a bit about her book in general but what hooked me was the idea that we can oscillate between the “fixed”…

I’m a new dad. My daughter (I’ll call her El) is just about a year old. The first year is tough. You really, really, don’t know what it’s like to have a kid before actually having a kid. Once you have a kid, you no longer control your life. You don’t control when you sleep,…