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
Nvidia Beat Every Number and Still Got Punished Read More »
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
The Room I Didn’t Think I Belonged In Read More »
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
The Tap I’ve Been Ignoring Since March Read More »
It’s half past six in the morning, and I’m already behind. Not behind on anything specific; that’s the strange part: behind in general. The feeling arrives before the day does, like a text message I haven’t opened yet but already know the tone of it. This is what August looks like for me now. School’s
The Day Has Twenty-Four Hours, and None of Them Feel Like Mine Read More »
Picture Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and you probably picture elk, mountains, and hikers in fleece. For one week in August, it’s also the most quietly consequential postcode in global finance, and almost nobody outside the industry could tell you why. From the 27th to the 29th of August, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City hosts
The Three Days in Wyoming That Could Move Your Portfolio Read More »
A friend forwarded me her remortgage quote this week with a single line underneath it: “Explain this to me like I’m five.” Her rate had crept up since her broker’s estimate six weeks ago, and as far as she could tell, nothing had happened. No Bank of England meeting. No headline about interest rates, just
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