Personal Writings

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Not knowing what you want, combining interests and becoming a generalist

December 23, 2025

Time to become a beast

Being great, spending time alone and the cost of excellence

December 19, 2025

Time is finite

Reflecting on how fast time goes, being a billionaire and creating the life you want

December 10, 2025

I've worked hard

My accomplishments, writing down your goals and enjoying the work

November 30, 2025

Be a superconnector

Jeffrey Epstein, Clarence Avant and connecting people

November 30, 2025

Leverage unwinds are dangerous

Investing in your own economy, our markets feeling like it's 1929 and the massive leverage in the system

November 30, 2025

What's important to you?

Week 29/31: An eventful week of weddings and reflections from week 28

Just keep going

Week 28/31: The biggest training week of my life and reflections from week 27

Experience all that life has to offer

Week 27/31: Jota's death, maximizing time and reflections from week 26

No one cares about you

Week 26/31: Not worrying about others, people paying attention and reflections from week 25

Turning 30

Week 25/31: Reminding myself what I've achieved before 30 and reflections from week 24

Commit

Week 24/31: Committing to something and reflections from week 23

Guess I'm a triathlete now

Week 23/31: Finishing my first Olympic triathlon and reflections from week 22

What are you optimizing your life for?

Week 22/31: Rethinking my goals, lessons from a trip to London and reflections from week 21

You need to fall

Week 21/31: Falling, failing and reflections from week 20

Prioritize rest

Week 20/31: Reminding myself to rest and reflections from week 19

Survival

Week 19/31: Pondering what's to come in the next few months and reflections from week 18

Never underestimate your impact

Week 18/31: The best part of finishing my 2nd marathon and reflections from week 17

You need inspiration

Week 17/31: Lessons from my inspirations, Liverpool's title race and reflections from week 16

Show up

Week 16/31: Showing up, being consistent and reflections from week 15

Never be afraid to fail

Week 15/31: Failing forward, being a beginner and reflections from week 14

Give yourself credit

Week 14/31: not being so hard on yourself, appreciating how far you've come and reflections from week 13

You gotta have faith

Week 13/31: my journey with faith, surpassing my fundraising goal and reflections from week 12

Researcher's plateau

Week 12/31: Hitting a wall, being proud of what I've done and reflections from week 11

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Dear Mr. Carney

Personal Writings

My open letter to our prime minister on how we can turn Canada into a world superpower

Look what you did

Personal Writings

Reflecting on the day I became an Ironman

January 7, 2025

We live in a Chinese world

Miscellaneous Musings

Essay on how China has advanced in production, manufacturing and helped their citizens while America has fallen behind

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