I'm an entrepreneur and investor. When I learn something interesting or have something I'm thinking about stuck in my head, I write about it here.
In 2024, I read 47 books, totaling 4.9 million words. While this marks a sharp decline in quantity from my previous reading levels, the quality of learning remained high. You can follow me on Goodreads to see every book I read, but here are a few of my favorites: The Power Broker by Robert Caro […]
Today I announced that I am a candidate for the Idaho House of Representatives in District 21, seat A. Redistricting left my new district in Meridian with two open seats. So I have decided that I will put my best foot forward and try to serve our great state. There is a long road and […]
2021 wasn’t quite as epic for me in terms of reading as 2020 was, but it came close. I decided to start working through the ten year Great Conversations reading plan, and read everything in year one. I had a big list of biographies to work through, and finished most of them. Topics as varied […]
This is the third part of my series on the Master’s Degree program I went through at Harvard. Here are links to part one and part two. In the fall of 2019, I took an Active Portfolio Management class as part of the Master’s Degree in Finance program from the Harvard Extension School. It was […]
I wrote a glowing review of the Harvard Extension school after my recent graduation from the Master’s Program after two years of studying finance at the unique institution. It is, without doubt, the best dollar-for-dollar university program available right now that anyone can access. But as I also alluded to in that article, it is […]
On August 7th, 2020 at about 10am I signed on to the Canvas course software, spent a little more than an hour taking a final exam about real estate investment, and then signed off for the last time. Over the last year and a half, I had done something very impressive in most people’s estimation: […]
To tell this story properly, we need to go back to May 2019. Forget about GameStop’s unprecedented short squeeze driven rally in 2021. What was GameStop? A forgotten, supposedly dying company that was poised to be the next Blockbuster, with a stock that had lost more than 80% of its value in the last five […]
I’ve always been a big reader, and this year was my most productive yet, finishing a total of 101 books during the year of lockdowns. I had several lists of books that were on my goals list this year that I got a good chunk of my reading from, including finishing the biographies of every […]
I can’t remember exactly where I first saw the idea to read a biography of every US president, but it instantly appealed to me. I started in July of last year, and about 14 months later finished the task. As boring of a project as this may sound to some, I was shocked at how […]
A few months ago, I happened to hear about the Grand Slam peaks around Boise. Four peaks that are all within an hour of Boise and burn off early enough for spring hiking, they are all popular destinations for local hikers. I had previously summited Shaw Mountain many times as a favorite training hike for […]
