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December 6, 2014You settle into your plush stadium seat, dead center, fourth row up. Arm rests down, there’s a half-cherry-half-Coke Icee with two straws in the cupholder to your left and a $6 box of Junior Mints to your right. The pre-movie …
Posted in Blog, Ponderings | Tagged action movies, fast furious, gladiator, mission impossible, the rock, vin diesel | Leave a commentIn One Room: Reflecting on the first CreativeMornings Summit
November 5, 2014This month, CreativeMornings plans to celebrate its 100th city. Somewhere, a volunteer team will apply for the license to start a “chapter,” and eventually that team will wake up bright and early to setup breakfast and open the doors to their first morning lecture.
Posted in Blog | Tagged creative, mornings, summit | 2 CommentsLess Obvious Lessons From The Last 50 Events I’ve Organized
October 18, 2014I’ve always found myself organizing events. From planning the dance to helping with concerts in college to the dozens of CreativeMornings lectures in the past few years, I gravitate towards the magic of the live show. I landed in New …
Posted in Blog | Tagged events, lessons, organizing, planning, tips | 2 CommentsAn 8th Grade Poem: The Monk, The Monkeys, and The Moo-moo Tree
August 6, 2014My late grandfather wrote poems throughout his life. I remember my mother showing me dozens of these sheets of paper filled with his handwriting that mom had kept safe and started to transcribe, even translate. She has often said, “The arts …
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentI dedicate this one to Jonathan Harris
August 1, 2014Jonathan Harris is one of those people who sticks with me as a source of inspiration. He’s just always there, Mr. 27, making me think differently. Let’s take this Friday afternoon to memorialize a few of my favorite Harris-isms that I can’t but help but periodically ponder.
Posted in Blog, Ponderings | Tagged inspiration, jonathan harris, number27 | Leave a commentThe cab driver that could have been a millionaire
May 19, 2014My girlfriend taught me to talk to my cab drivers. She would tell me stories about her taxi chats, always asking the same questions, “where did you grow up?” and “what are your favorite places eat?”
Posted in Blog, Ponderings | Tagged if only, real estate, williamsburg | Leave a commentThe Poetic Wax of Weightlifting
March 15, 2014As far as I can remember, my first “gym” experience was early high school when P.E. class featured a weight training unit. Hence, one fateful day my 130lb sophomore frame reluctantly strolled into the school’s weight room for the first …
Posted in Blog, Ponderings | Tagged brooklyn, fitness, gym, simplicity, weightlifting | Leave a commentAutomating Your Finances
January 15, 2014At work, I’ve always loved thinking through processes. There’s just something about identifying the most efficient way for inputs to lead to outputs, and I should have figured that I could apply the same rigor to my personal finances. In …
Posted in Advice, Blog, Finance | Tagged personal finance | Leave a commentI’m Learning About Money
December 30, 2013Personal finance is one of those topics that’s easily overwhelming. Last year, I caught myself repeating the same worries. “Stocks, bonds, 401ks, IRAs? There’s just too much to comprehend.” “I have no idea what all of those experts are talking …
Posted in Blog, Finance | Tagged i will teach you to be rich, larry swedroe, personal finance, ramit sethi | Leave a comment5 Absurdly Worthwhile Under-$10-Purchases I’ve Made In The Past Year(ish)
June 2, 201334oz bottle of Valentina Hot Sauce $1.99 at Associated Market, Park Slope, Brooklyn The setting: March 10, 2012, shortly after my 24th birthday. In either a complete lapse of judgement or ultimate gift to the hot sauce heads of P. …
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