Opening Rant: Positioning vs. Doing, Flow States, Wasted Youth, Dog Daze — [First time reading Content Lists? Feel free to check out where it all started…] Hello friends. Hope you’re in good health + thriving despite this latest Omicron wave. I confess I may have jinxed us all back in June when I put the words “Post-COVID” in a Spotify playlist title…

Opening Rant: Feedback Cycles, Hedonic Treadmill, and The Great Humbling [First time reading Content Lists? Feel free to check out where it all started…] Back in Philadelphia, where it’s (finally) transitioning from the swampy Summer heat to that perfectly-temperate early Fall. Still, it’s no LA… 😜 Here at school, we’ve…

Opening Rant: Optimize=Compromise, Intuition & Action, Exploring/Expanding Consciousness, Emotion Contagion [First time reading Content Lists? Feel free to check out where it all started…] Ah, that August calmness. Well… relative calm. As always, thank you for stopping by! I hope this finds you in a healthy, mentally lucid state, and that you’re able to take some time to recharge during…

Opening Rant: Fractal Problems, Narrative Reflex, Reverence for Rockstars — First, a quick thanks for all the commentary on CL#30 Observations — Angels vs. Apples. I’ve never received more responses to a post… Perhaps the most incisive comment: “in LA your greatest currency is your looks, but in NYC it’s your pedigree.” It’s all intriguing to noodle on, to gather…

Opening Rant: Observations — Angels vs. Apples — [Disclaimer: This Rant’s a bit different than others. Far more blog-ish, relatively less on the usual psychology/tech/investing-centric spiels you’re used to. But, at the same time, it’s really always about those things. Human nature, what a trip… ) America’s Northeast quadrant has been my primary residence all my life. Philly…

Opening Rant: Rumors + Reverie, Qualitative Models, (Self-)Perceptions, and Processing Change — Welcome back, friends. Another scattered collections of musings await you in this Opening Rant. A peek inside my brain, if you will. My main hope — with this edition, as with all others— is that something herein piques your interest and/or makes you stop and think. …

Opening Rant: Cognitive Biases, Securitization, and Forced Narratives — Hello, friends. Thanks for stopping by. In this edition, you’ll find another seemingly-scattered collection of contemplations. Maybe they’re all related; maybe they’re not. I’ll let you decide. Spent the past week in NYC; Spring sprung, head-faked, then gave us a few grayish and misty daze. On the nicer ones, humanity…

Opening Rant: Mental Musings — Been a busy time. As I’m looking back, each 1st-quarter in recent memory has been a grind… How’s it been for you? How are you doing? Worth pausing for a moment to take inventory. Herein, I present a series of questions/thoughts that have been percolating. These could be fodder for…

Opening Rant: 2021 Resolutions Whew. 2020 sure was an “unprecedented” year, to say the least… Yet despite the calamities (of which there were many), the passage of time felt faster than any year in recent memory. And I’m far from the only one who felt that way. What about 2020 made it slip by…