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This is what I'm up to nowadays, as of June 2025.

Last week we took a trip to a seaside town down in North Carolina. A beautiful and charming little place called Southport. My girlfriend's family has a...

As I begin this blog-writing experiment, my first instinct is to just write, ramble, type whatever, and hit publish. Which I did with my last post here....

My girlfriend is a voracious reader. I knew others read more than me, but I thought I read a fair amount. But after dating her, I realize I've got to do...

I've been sitting here for several days now tweaking my new website and wanting to post something. But, I can't seem to think of something to write about....

I started with Squarespace, but something about the blogging part didn't quite do it for me. Then I moved on to Ghost. Loved the blogging editor, but to...

I recently moved to a new neighborhood in DC and found a great place with my girlfriend. When I first moved to this city, I was already pleasantly...

If one can recognize a clearly asymmetric bet, it is almost always worth the risk. However, one needs to recognize that asymmetric doesn’t mean there...

Once you start learning about commercial real estate, you reach a point where you start seeing the world around you through a whole other lens. Buildings...

I've had a lot of failures in my life. My initial, natural inclination is to analyze and explain to myself somehow how the situation wasn't entirely my...

Whenever I'm with my daughter, I try to make sure that I don't hold back and show her that it's ok to be goofy and not be self-conscious in front of other...

As part of my career path, I worked for an algorithmic trading firm. The kind of firm that hires Caltech and MIT kids to come in, learn the markets, and...

I was re-reading John McNellis' "Making it in Real Estate" and came across his discussion on the famous Woody Allen Quote about success: 80% of success is...

There seems to be seeds of doubt in any big decision, but usually there's a clear inclination towards the side you're leaning on. But sometimes, there's...

It started with me asking the question “What is the coolest job you can possibly have?”. My answer to that was an astronaut. So I thought, ok, seems like...