For the last few years I’ve been getting into house music. It started from stutter house and now expanded into dance house. Maybe it’s a phase or maybe it’s not, but I did go through difference phases of music over the years (I don’t think this is unnatural?). Sometimes Spotify—when in shuffle mode—will play a…

Drive is one of my favorite songs. I was first hooked on by the opening guitar riff as a teen, but the lyrics are even more meaningful in my 30s. I just wanted to share for other readers and my future self. —-Sometimes, I feel the fear ofUncertainty stinging clearAnd I, I can’t help but…

In business, we talk about barriers to entry a lot. In practical terms, a business is worth more if it’s hard to replicate what the business does. We see modern examples in the news when we hear about Google’s monopoly and how the FTC wants to break it up. But we don’t talk much about…

Working in private equity sometimes provides an interesting vantage point. It’s a job that is a mix of being in tune with macro trends but also requiring attention to the minutia and ultimately investing in one of the hundreds of similar companies you end up evaluating. In finance terms, the job is both riding the…

It’s a common mantra in business, especially among the start up community. “Making it” generally involves achieving some sort of success—maybe it’s title, money, status, power, or all of the above. But usually I find that “making it” isn’t very well defined for most people.  And that applies to me too. As a 1.5 generation…