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Idiosyncrasies

Light Moving Through Dark at the Speed of Time

It occurs to me that this is an interesting way to model the epistemology of past, present and future: With better recording and research the left tail can perhaps move at a slower gradient, but this is a stylized model after all. Is there any more succinct way to show the importance of seizing the [...]

Leap of Faith

Today may have just been the first day of the rest of my life. I thought it was worth noting down in this personal log. Even if I don’t quite know what that rest of my life looks like yet. But I am sure George Soros didn’t either, in his year as a handbag salesman [...]

The Day I Met A Tiger Cub

I was attending a school-related function, my guard completely down and dress totally casual (well, alright, I was wearing a black t-shirt with a Bloomberg monitor as a graphic – but in a cool way) when all of a sudden I found myself face to face with the husband of the hostess of the party. [...]

Young Adulthood & the Passion-Driven Life

Vignette A defining characteristic of my conversations with friends this weekend was their struggle with themselves to find direction in life. There was the friend who is graduating from college but realized he’s just spent 4 years in the wrong major. There was another who has a true passion, one that doesn’t pay easily, and [...]

Systematic Investing and Arranged Marriages

This just has to be preserved for posterity: Kellerman asked whether the higher success rate of “arranged marriages” over what he called “discretionary marriages” suggested than humans shouldn’t be making important decisions. The human team said that maybe so, but that humans are still the ones arranging the marriages. In a stereotypically un-romantic way that [...]