My Love Affair With Sales
Well dressed in Utah Valley means that you’re wearing your best pair of jeans tucked into your nicest sneakers. A well-dressed...
top of page
Aug 20, 20214 min read
I Punched the Fridge
The water dispenser on our refrigerator has a broken spring. So if you push it, you then have to pull it back, like a barbarian, or it...
Aug 19, 20215 min read
clarity & connection by Yung Pueblo
A compilation of my favorite quotes: Top Ten: A real conversation, free from projection and ego-flexing, is a special gift. Most do not...
Aug 19, 20217 min read
How Important is Joseph Smith?
I've thought about the LDS church quite a bit over the last ~five years. Of all of the interesting rabbit holes one could explore, one...
Aug 16, 20213 min read
A Gift From the Desert
There are two kinds of people in this world… desert people and other people. There is a harshness about the desert that is simultaneously...
Jul 22, 20215 min read
On Being a Secondary Caregiver
“Dad, how big is an Earth seed?” This was the fifth question in my 5-year-old son’s line of questioning. At this point we had conceded to...
May 12, 20215 min read
The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb’s aphorisms are standalone compressed thoughts revolving around his main idea of how we deal, and should deal, with what we don’t...
Apr 27, 20213 min read
Everything by Aaron Haspel
Everything – A book of Aphorisms By Aaron Haspel “Aphorisms are often derided as trivial, yet most people rule their lives with four or...
Apr 2, 20218 min read
On first-hand experience
My four-year-old son Cal almost drowned yesterday. A rip tide on Ke Iki Beach sucked him out while playing in the shore break. Long story...
Mar 3, 20210 min read
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Paul Graham on Procrastination
A summary of a great post: There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you...
Jan 2, 20213 min read
2020 Book List
East of Eden – John Steinbeck – Fiction Classic for a reason. Story of a family growing up in Salinas Valley, CA with a rough Cain and...
Nov 22, 202012 min read
Mormons vs. Followers of Jesus
A talk I gave today in the Golden Gate Ward: Today I want to talk about something that I’ve thought about over the last couple of years...
Oct 19, 20203 min read
Chamath Palihapitiya on happiness and investing
This was a good Knowledge Project podcast (Apple podcast link here for mobile). Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO of Social Capital...
Sep 24, 20202 min read
Raj Chetty on COVID's impact on inequality & education
This website is really good. It visualizes unemployment rates by geography and how they’ve changed during COVID. Check out your county....
Sep 15, 20203 min read
On Elon Musk
Excerpts from a great Rolling Stone article on Elon Musk: On the scientific method The scientific method is a phrase Musk uses often when...
Sep 8, 20205 min read
Bob Bowman (Michael Phelps' coach) on success
Some motivational thoughts from a speech given by Bob Bowman, one of Michael Phelps’ swimming coaches. I don’t know anything about...
Sep 2, 20202 min read
Paul Graham on why kids are great
There are too many great quotes from his blog, but I really connected with this one on having kids: "So to some extent you can't trust me...
Sep 2, 20202 min read
Paul Graham Interview Highlights
I'm a regular reader of Paul Graham's (founder of Y Combinator) and find him to be one of the more thoughtful people writing things down...
Sep 1, 20203 min read
Early Utah Territory Polygamy Data
For those that happen to be as interested in Mormon history as I am, I was looking for data from the early Utah period - specifically the...
Aug 31, 20202 min read
The Lost Virtue of Doubt
Janan Ganesh wrote a great piece in the FT on Brent Snowcroft, a conservative advisor to four U.S. Presidents, and how we need to heroise...
Aug 31, 20202 min read
Amateurs vs. Professionals
One of the better Farnam Street posts in a while. A list differentiating amateurs from professionals, but I would also say thoughtful vs....
Jul 14, 202012 min read
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
I read the Gregory Hays translation. This would be insulting to try and summarize, so I'll simply list the highlighted sections I made on...
Mar 9, 202012 min read
Second City Satire Submissions
I took a satire writing class online. Here are my submissions: Questions to Ask Yourself to Avoid Fake News Did a friend forward you the...
bottom of page