Posts tagged with Thoughts
The Ceiling and the Floor
I've been mulling over a mental model the past couple of years, expanding on the notion of setting and hitting a singular goal: the idea of optimizing for the ceiling and the floor. It came about from an…
An Affirm Retrospective
No fine print. It was a few months after I started my new job at Affirm, when I noticed this literally plastered on the hallway walls leading to the company kitchens. Out of our set of company's values,…
California’s Wildfire Reckoning
The lengthy, yet just beginning wildfire season in California this year is already exhausting. Starting with the random dry lightning strikes sparking a trio of the largest wildfires our state has experienced on record, it has been one crisis after…
Mental Wellness
We’re all very tired. 2020 has so far been a living rendition of the supposed Chinese curse, “may you live in interesting times”. Given all the major events that have occurred thus far, it’s actually hard to remember…
Review: Art of the Good Life
Early on, it wasn't clear that Art of the Good Life was going to be much different than countless other self-help books that promise the nirvana of disproportionate self-driven improvement that eventually leads to, well, the…
Life After COVID-19
The drumbeat of unprecedented events come at a daily clip. Disney resorts, for the first time, shut down indefinitely. The stock market, with some of the biggest index drops ever and a place in macroeconomic history books. The highest number…
