Our family enjoyed a few weeks of vacation on Bornholm. As we were milling around, a handful of ideas for future blogposts occurred to me; I also took tons of photographs. I thought I would share some of these pictures, and summaries of potential blogposts, here. Bornholm is a small island in the Baltic Sea, …
The exponential information age is like a verbally incontinent person: he talks more and more as fewer and fewer people listen. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Bed of Procrustes As a young businessman consulting clients, I recall feeling a tension between two forms of advice from elder consultants. The first form was to always prepare for …
One person, on doing well by others, immediately accounts the expected favor in return. Another is not so quick, but still considers the person a debtor and knows the favor. A third kind of person acts as if not conscious of the deed, rather like a vine producing a cluster of grapes without making further …
The Loughran family lived next door to my grandparents in Paramus, NJ when I was a child. I have memories of sneaking, as a young boy, across the grass over to Mrs. Loughran’s backdoor to pick a few candies from a dish in her living room. Mrs. Loughran apparently shared that, when she asked me …
I enjoy the slow pace of Saturday mornings during the pandemic. This morning included a casual stroll with Becca and Odie as well as some time invested into a Python project; I also listened to an interview with Niall Ferguson. Some meandering thoughts about experiences in personal finance I wrote in a blog post last …
As a resident of Pennsylvania, I was curious about the distribution of votes for US President across geography (e.g. rural-PA compared with urban-PA) as well as vote modality (e.g. in-person compared with by-mail.) I understood that it would take at least a few days after the election to count votes cast by mail, and it …