#life
- Eight Years of Blood Tests, Two Diets, One MigraineA book promised keto would end my migraines. It didn't. It raised my cholesterol instead. Then I switched to beans, nuts, olive oil and vegetables. Here is every blood number since 2019, in one chart.
- How to Teach a Child to Ride a Bike, Then a UnicycleBuy a balance bike, not training wheels. Then a tricycle for the pedals, then a real bike in an empty parking lot — and the garage trick that gets a child onto a unicycle.
- I Hate JoggingI have never once wanted to go jogging. I go many mornings anyway — by never arguing about the whole run, only about the next small step.
- Health: The Table Everything Else Sits OnCompounding needs two things — a seed, and time. I wrote about the seed already. This is about the time. And the only way to buy more time is to stay alive and stay well, no matter what.
- Where Capital Comes From: Labor, Knowledge, Agency, WisdomThe money tree needs time. It also needs a seed big enough to be worth the wait. Here are the four jobs that grow the seed — and the four things each one really sells.
- Compound Interest: Grow the Tree, Eat the FruitI charted two kids from age 11 to 100. One plants a $3,000 seed and never touches it. The other keeps watering it, then lives off the fruit. Both end up rich. The chart is the whole lesson.
- Wake on the First Alarm: A Rule, Not a DecisionI dreamed of waking without an alarm. I can't, not yet. So I built one rule to stop the snooze button from stealing my week — and moved every choice to after I'm awake.
- Things I Love and Actually UseA small, honest list of things I own, use, and would buy again — with a real review on each, and one column most lists hide: does the brand actually matter?
- What Do I Want? Design the Day, Not the DreamFIRE tells you when you can stop selling your hours. But you only know when to stop if you know what you'd do instead. So I wrote down one ideal day, hour by hour.
- On Buying InsuranceHealth, house, car, travel — and the one rule under all of them: insure the loss that would wipe you out, pay for the rest yourself.
- On Owning a CarWhat a string of cars taught me about tools, liabilities, and being honest with myself.
- On Buying a HouseAfter living in a few homes across different life stages, why I'd rather hold stocks till I die.
- A Trip to New York and Washington DCNotes from another visit to Manhattan and a first real look at DC — on walkability, density, anonymity, and a storm that wouldn't let us leave.
- Graduation: A Letter to My ChildYou've graduated and escaped the 'prison.' Now the world is yours, alone. A father's letter on failure, freedom, and reinventing yourself.
- 11 Lessons I've LearntWhat I'd tell my younger self — about money, health, people, and peace of mind.