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This summer, my new AI investment advisor, Mezzi, discovered roughly $300,000 of hidden stock exposure in Google I didn't know I had. It sounds a little absurd, given the amount. But I've been investing in Google for over 15 years, and with a complicated net worth it's hard to track everything accurately when your mind anchors […]

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Happy Labor Day weekend everyone. Perhaps some of you are in the market for a new car this weekend. I'm definitely not. After almost a year of deliberating between replacing my 2015 Range Rover Sport or continuing to fix it, I've finally decided to keep fixing it indefinitely. The main reason is that we may […]

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I'm reading a great little book called The Practice Of Not Reacting: Zen Wisdom For A Happy Life by Ryushun Kusanagi. The publisher is Portfolio Penguin, the same publisher for my 2027 book, Your Children Will Be OK. One of the core concepts is that all of us want to be recognized for our contributions. At work, at […]

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Ever since graduating from business school in 2006, one of my favorite ways to learn is through case studies. And there's no better case study for understanding the IPO quiet period than Anthropic's upcoming IPO. Anthropic is expected to publicly file its IPO prospectus after Labor Day, with a listing as soon as late September […]

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In April 2026, I gave up my private sports club membership. The stock market was correcting again due to the war in Iran, oil and inflation had shot up, and I figured it was time to cut expenses and simplify. The membership was $185 a month. On top of that I paid $25 per guest […]

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I have been a landlord since 2005, the year I rented out the very first property I bought in San Francisco after buying a single-family home. Since then I've been through all sorts of disputes. Neighbors texting me that my tenants were running across their roofs during Fleet Week. A heaping pile of trash left […]

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I wrote this post because I needed a kick in the pants. I was finishing my fifth straight day of seven to nine hours of childcare, plus three posts and a newsletter. My wife and I were both sick, but she had it worse, so stepping up wasn't optional. What follows is mostly me talking myself […]

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