I’m unreasonably into matcha. I’ve tried it at dozens of cafes across multiple cities and the quality variance is staggering. Some places use ceremonial-grade matcha whisked properly. Others dump commodity powder into steamed milk and charge $7. The problem is you can’t tell which …

I cycled seriously for about two years. Got into structured training, bought a $2K bike, did a 100-mile race. It was great. But every ride required a production: bib shorts, sunglasses, helmet, checking weather, dealing with traffic. The activation energy kept going up. Eventually I stopped riding …

In 2022, I watched a real estate deal fall apart in the worst way possible. An operator had raised capital from over thirty investors for what looked like a legitimate syndication. It wasn’t. The money was mismanaged, promises were fabricated, and investors were left with nothing. The FBI got …

In March 2019, I had a simple problem. I’d received stock option grants from a couple of companies and wanted to see what they’d be worth under different vesting schedules and stock price scenarios. The spreadsheet I was using was getting unwieldy. So I spent a weekend building a small …

My Garmin watch, Eight Sleep mattress, MacroFactor nutrition logs, and Concept2 PM5 rowing data all lived in separate apps that had no idea the others existed. The Garmin knew my resting heart rate was elevated but didn’t know about last night’s four hours of sleep. MacroFactor knew …