Year: 2020
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Your Past
I was one of the very lucky ones, though it took me a long time to understand just how lucky I was. I grew up with loving parents, siblings with whom I never fought, very involved grandparents, and a bunch of cousins who I count as close friends today. I made friends with incredible people…
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My First International Trip in 7 Months
Since my last blog post I traveled internationally for the first time in almost seven months. That period of time represents the longest time I’ve stayed in one country since 2008, I think. It was a weird experience for a number of reasons and made me reflect a lot on travel and being stationary. In…
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Turn Maybes into Wins
We all want good things to happen in our lives. Sometimes these good things stem from obvious wins that can be picked up easily, like accepting a new job offer or going on a second date when a first date went well. In thinking about which events in my life were most positively impactful, however,…
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Your Time Scale
We make hundreds or thousands of subconscious decisions each day, but just because they’re subconscious doesn’t mean that we have no influence on them. Quite the opposite, they are actually dictated by our principles and the lenses through which we view the world. By changing those things we can automatically and effortlessly make better decisions.…
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Investment Principles
A friend asked me if I had any rules for investing, not necessarily in stocks but in other things, and I said that I didn’t have hard and fast rules, but thought about it more in terms of principles. What are those principles, she asked? Well… I didn’t quite have an answer ready. I’ve thought…
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Why I Love Escape Games (Even in VR)
My friend Michiru was very excited about a new thing that some of her Japanese friends had brought to San Francisco. It was called a “puzzle break room” and her description of it made absolutely no sense to me. She kept insisting that I would love it and that I absolutely had to go, but…
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A Basic Formula for Contentedness
A friend and I were discussing food. I told him that I didn’t care about food, and he laughed and said that I cared more about food than anyone he knew. I am so obsessed with ingredients and quality and wouldn’t eat at a lot of restaurants. I thought about it and realized that he…
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Being Fascinated
For the past few days I’ve had a spring in my step. Why? Because I’m writing some tax-loss-harvesting and rebalancing software, of course. Yesterday, as I was coding, I realized how monotonous the code I was writing was, but how much I was enjoying writing it. It was a strange combination. I don’t always love…
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Choosing How to Invest Time and Money
Partially because of my previous two posts about managing your finances like a billionaire and because of the obvious impact of of coronavirus on CruiseSheet, I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently around money and finance. I realized that there’s one missing piece that I may not have talked about much before, but which may…
