My little spot on the internet, thanks for checking it out. Quick Intro Working on True Pros Media, tinkering in tech, traveling around the world, and s...
This is what I'm up to nowadays. *inspired by Derek Sivers and his now page . Updated 04JUN2025 Last winter, I finished up working with a firm I had been with for 10.5 years. Over that time, I worked in their NY office for a few months, Singapore for 3.5 years, Austin for 3 years, and then remotely from Washington, D.C. for 3.5 years. It was a good run, but the last few years was a huge transition…
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 place down there that they let us use. So me, her, and my 7-year-old daughter went down and stayed the whole week. We had a great time. Their place is within walking distance to the quaint little downtown and the ocean. There's a beach, but not the…
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 . But after re-reading it, I realized it read in a messy, disorganized way. And while I felt I got some of my ideas out there, it didn't come across the way I was actually thinking about it. As this thought lingered in my head, I started poking…
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 better. There's a book that's been sitting on my shelf for a while that is on my must-read list, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann . We've been talking about it, and she finally started reading it. I'm a bit jealous because I'm still working on…
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 came to the decision to just start writing. If I come up with something as I write, great, I'll post it. If not, well, maybe I'll still post it just to go through the motion. I mean, what am I worried about, somebody reading it? Nobody's…
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 change the theme around, I'd have to either self-host it and lose all email functionality, or pony up $35/month to use Mailgun. Or, I could just pay $25/month and host the site on Ghost Pro's 2nd tier. Not terribly expensive, but too much for a…
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 surprised and I lived in a pretty cool neighborhood for the first couple of years, but man, this new neighborhood is beyond my expectations. I can't imagine there being a better walkable neighborhood. Granted, at this point I only have my daughter every…
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 isn’t risk. What bothers me is when some guru spouts about risk, an asymmetric risk, they almost always seem to be one of the people where that risk works out for them. However, there are plenty of people who take those risks, and lose. But it seems…
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 and stores take on a whole new meaning. You start to see the economics behind it, you wonder about its origin, the people involved in bringing it into the world. It’s an asset, but it’s also a part of the community. It’s a business intrinsic unto…
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 fault, and to somehow justify it. I recognize this inclination and then try to take a step back, review the situation, and analyze why I made the decisions that I made, what I could have done better in hindsight, and what to take away from it and…