I took the idea of Intermittent Fasting and applied it to my phone. I call it Digital Intermittent Fasting and I’ve been doing it on the weekends as a way to disconnect from the stupid 247365 noise spigot and endless doom scroll treadmill. Too much of...

Many of you reading this today are familiar with the idea of Seasonality when it comes to the stock market. For those not familiar, markets have seasonal tendencies that often play out but not always. For example, November through January tends to be the...

Mid-November, I like to think about my priorities for the next year and distill them down into a few simple themes.  Doing this helps me focus on the important things so I can make them happen. Sometimes, this takes a lot of thought and strategizing,...

Our brains are so big that we can think up all kinds of clever schemes to fool ourselves and so we do just that. Maybe we don’t want to face failure or a good thing went bad or there’s something about ourselves we don’t like or the inevitability of death...

Ancient civilizations identified four elements of the physical universe. These are: 1. Air, 2. Fire, 3. Earth & 4. Water I love the simplicity and the functionality of their model. If I am cold, more heat. If I am thirsty, more water. Maybe if I was...

The Brain is deeper than the sea For hold them Blue to Blue The one the other will absorb As sponges Buckets do — Emily Dickinson Next week, I’ll be presenting at Stocktoberfest in Coronado, CA and I wanted to give a preview of the presentation here for...

We are born equipped to thrive.  We can learn new things, improve ourselves, and bounce back from life’s inevitable setbacks. This is true of all the different parts of us, the physical, the psychological, and the spiritual. And our innate growth tendency...

Last week, I wrote about wisdom and cynicism. TLDR – you can’t have both.  Today, I’m writing about wisdom and time. My friend Brian wrote the book on multiple timeframe technical analysis for traders. Here’s a photo of my copy… The gist is...

I remember when we had our first child. It was 17 years ago, we were living in Brooklyn, and early on he was not a great sleeper. I used to walk him around Park Slope and Prospect Park on my chest in the Baby Bjorn for hours so he would sleep. It was...

Thanksgiving marks the beginning of weight gain season for adults in the US. Here’s an image from NEJM that I shared last year in a post called The Seasonality of Weight Gain that tells the tale. It even has the vertical line delineating US Thanksgiving....