Writing
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Philosophizing
2026-01-24 | Paying for 80/20 in fitness and finance
2026-01-24 | Thoughts spurred by Morgan Housel
2025-12-20 | Big fish, small pond
2025-03-30 | Divine Intervention
2023-05-21 | Hunger
2022-06-27 | Chapters
2022-03-24 | Drive
2021-09-27 | Fulfilling Potential
2019-11-25 | Climb the Fig Tree
Career-Related Writings
2025-02-23 | How to Choose a Company
2024-10-11 | Not-so-funemployment: NO NO NO YES
2024-10-11 | Career Advice to Former Consultants
2024-02-20 | Farewell to BCG
2022-09-05 | One year into consulting
2019-07-21 | What drives your career choices?
Finance
2026-01-04 | Reflections on The Art of Spending Money
2026-01-03 | Thoughts on writing about personal finance
2023-08-14 | What does it mean to be rich?
2022-06-27 | Two Nonlinearities in Personal Finance
2020-12-31 | Almost a Tesla-naire
2020-10-05 | Affective Forecasting and Dream Cars
2020-10-05 | Gross Salary vs. Take-Home Income
Energy
2023-11-16 | 2025 Toyota Camry Hybrid: What got you here, won't get you there
2022-09-16 | Takeaways from Confronting Climate Gridlock
2021-05-31 | My Undergraduate Thesis, 1800 to 0: Pathways to a Zero-Carbon US Power Grid (Presentation)
2021-02-26 | A post-mortem on Winter Storm Uri, What happened to Texas?
2020-11-11 | Emissions Costs from US Electricity Production
2020-09-12 | Digging into the Sankey diagrams of US Energy Flow
2020-05-11 | The Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainability
2019-11-24 | Is the Cybertruck a Good Business Move?
2019-11-17 | About that Mach-E...
2019-04-10 | Electric Vehicle Incentives
2019-01-09 | Welcome to the Arena: Hydrogen as a Competitor to Electric Transportation
Food
Weekly Cooking posts from 2021: March 22, March 14, March 7, February 28, February 14, February 7
2021-04-18 | What's Good at Central Market?
2021-02-28 | Cooking Sausages
2020-02-02 | An Efficient Breakfast
2019-12-08 | Steaks with Nate
2018-09-14 | Blue Apron: Shrimp and Pesto Gnocchi with Summer Vegetables
2018-07-11 | Seafood Pasta with Tuscan Hot Oil
2018-06-17 | You Learn Best from Failure
2018-06-13 | Pasta Aglio e Olio
2018-06-10 | Spaghetti "Alfredo"
Academic Works
2023-07-03 | An Introduction to Option Theory
2020-05-12 | Money(basket)ball
2020-05-11 | Some COVID-19 Explanatory Stuff
Other writings
2025-08-09 | How I use AI (August 2025)
2025-02-10 | Slow Dancing in a Burning Room / Skiing
2024-11-17 | Born to Run
2024-06-09 | Some thoughts on how to improve the Centurion Lounges
2023-02-12 | Notes from What we Owe the Future
2023-02-03 | The Biggest Dog
2022-12-06 | Death of a Consultant
2022-08-21 | Alan Watts | Live Fully Now
2022-05-21 | Some travel hacks for renting cars, flying, and lodging
2021-11-28 | 20%
2021-08-08 | An Ode to the Ford Focus
2021-07-06 | Thoughts on Traveling
2021-06-02 | Thank God I was Born a Texas Longhorn
2021-04-25 | Fleetwood Mac is golden
2021-03-07 | The Best 2021 Volvo S60 is Underpriced
2020-11-13 | Charities, Part II
2020-11-02 | Einstein isn't that Smart
2020-11-01 | Rambling Thoughts on the Role of College
2020-10-24 | Serendipity, or What You Learn Studying Liberal Arts
2020-10-11 | Giving Something Up
2020-09-30 | Racism
2020-03-30 | Reality - Expectations
2020-02-04 | Long-term Impact, or What You Learn Studying Business
2020-01-13 | Good to Great
2020-01-07 | The Ideal Self, 2020
2019-12-24 | Surfing the Barrel > Anger
2019-12-20 | I’ve hit a new milestone
2019-12-10 | Two Kinds of Hardness, or What You Learn Studying Engineering
2012-12-07 | How to Throw a Rager
2019-12-07 | Kanban Doors, Overcommitment, and Productive Procrastination
2019-10-13 | Career Choices, Motivated Reasoning, and Thinking by Proxy [Part 1]
2019-09-04 | Hacking Happiness
2019-08-24 | Good Read: This is Water
2019-08-19 | Good Read: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
2018-12-17 | Welcome to the Arena: Tesla's Competition in the Race to Autonomy
2018-06-30 | Exploring and Exploiting in Employment
Archive
Older writings that I preserve out of some sense of obligation to preserve and tracing my thoughts and interests over time, but that I don’t necessarily think are worth reading
2019-04-17 | Dress shoes suck
2019-01-21 | Focus costs $350
2018-12-31 | Thoughts on the Surface Go
2018-08-14 | Some Samsung Speculation
2018-08-13 | Yes, it's a smartwatch
2018-07-27 | The Wireless Tax