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Review: The Aspirational Investor

Review: The Aspirational Investor

The Aspirational Investor is a book by the Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch that introduces a slightly different way to think about investments. It’s not looking to overturn how to think about investing; the author readily admits that…

A Crypto Hypothesis

A Crypto Hypothesis

I don't write much about crypto on this blog. While I've worked and lived through some of the formulative years of FinTech, I admit I don't fully understand the crypto space—a space that…

Free is Magic

Free is Magic

So, after waxing poetically about CDs and DVDs from 2 decades ago and ripping a couple of select anime series[1] and movies, I turned around and threw away the disks. As opposed to searching for sparks of joy as…

Funny Chart Investing

Funny Chart Investing

Ever since the Square IPO, I’ve been keeping a closer eye on, while trying to learn more about, the US stock market. Even though my first job out of school involved supporting systems that aggregated financial data across stock…

Meme Finance

Meme Finance

Out of college, I joined a company that aggregated financial data to sell to stock market traders and analysts; briefly explored the Master of Financial Engineering degree at Cal; ended up working for two FinTech startups that managed to scale…

Review: Die with Zero

Review: Die with Zero

The title gives away the ending— Die with Zero is a book about maximizing your financial resources, such that there ought to be nary a cent left by the time you move to the farm upstate to hang out with…