The Morning I Stopped Checking The Mirror First There was a stretch of my life when the mirror was the first thing I consulted every morning, as though it held the actual verdict on how the day was going to go. I do not remember deciding to stop doing that. What I remember is noticing, […]
I Got More Attractive by Doing Less to My Face Read More »
The Currency Counter I Remember Years ago, before I understood any of this properly, I stood at a currency exchange counter in an airport and watched the pound buy noticeably less of the local currency than it had the year before. I remember feeling almost personally offended, as though the exchange rate had done it
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The Question I Actually Care About People sometimes assume the thing I care most about is whether someone’s portfolio grows. It matters, and I would be dishonest if I said otherwise, but it has never been the question I am asking myself when I am building something for the people who trust me with their
I Don’t Want You Rich. I Want You Free. Read More »
My Friend’s Long House Hunt A friend of mine has been trying to buy her first home since January. Every few weeks she sends me an update, and for a long time the updates were all some version of the same complaint: that everything she liked was already gone by the time she got the
House Prices Barely Moved. Buying Got Harder Read More »
The Evening The System Would Not Cooperate There is a particular kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. It is the tired that sets in after a long stretch of solving one problem only to find three more waiting behind it, the kind that makes you stare at a screen you have
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The Day I Thought The App Broke The first time a company I owned beat every single earnings estimate, and the stock fell anyway, I genuinely thought the app was broken. I refreshed it three times before I accepted that yes, the numbers were green and the price was red, and no, that was not
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The Afternoon It Started I was halfway through making a coffee on Friday afternoon when my phone did the thing it does when a price alert goes off twice in ten minutes. I already knew what it meant before I looked. Somewhere in Wyoming, a man in a suit had started talking, and bitcoin had
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I used to arrive early to networking events for entirely strategic reasons. Not to make a good impression. To scope the exits, get a drink in my hand as fast as possible, and find a wall to stand near. If you’ve ever done this, you already know exactly what I mean, and you don’t need
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about gold falling during a Middle East war; This broke a lot of people’s mental model of how gold is supposed to behave. Conventional wisdom: safe-haven asset prices should rise when the world looks frightening. It didn’t, and I explained why. Now gold has turned around and climbed back
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There is a cupboard door in my house that hasn’t closed properly since spring. I know exactly what’s wrong with it. I know roughly how long it would take to fix. And every single day since then, I have chosen my inbox over a screwdriver, because the inbox has a deadline attached and the cupboard
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