There is absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust in your heart in respect of this email

Robinhood or King Richard? I don’t like to jump on bandwagons, particularly tech-hate bandwagons, but Matt Taibbi’s article this week about the trading app Robinhood is testing my resolve. It’s titled Pandemic Villains, for Christ’s sake! Anyway, this line in the piece from Bill Brewster really stuck with me: “Everything is designed to make investing [...]

A vision of what email could be

In a lot of ways, my 2020 has been The Year of the Newsletter. Not only because I’ve been writing one of my own since early April, but also because I’ve begun to consistently follow a couple of other great ones: Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk’s Margins, Andrew Sullivan’s The Weekly Dish, Anne Helen Peterson’s [...]

Recognizing a landmark

This past Thursday’s Thanksgiving saw a long-time dream of my family’s realized: We replaced our turkey with a turducken. For anyone wondering what that is – trust me, it’s not hard to figure out – here is the father of the American turducken, John Madden, describing it on a Thanksgiving football broadcast in 2002: “What [...]

I’m an INFJ-A, could anything be more obvious?

It happened on a Wednesday night. A communication breakdown like none the United States had ever seen. The CIA scrambled to reach their contacts in Russia, China, and the darkest corners of the Middle East, but the cell towers were dead. The Pentagon pinged their satellites over North Korea and Iran, but were met with [...]

Getting creative with shielding assets