things i like

some recent favs and links

today i had toe surgery and cannot think to write anything meaningful so i decided to share things i’ve been enjoying recently

everything here i have genuinely loved using and/or consuming lately. thought it’d be interesting to document and look back on the things i was into during this time

movies and tv shows

• the worst person in the world [norwegian coming of age film, did well as Cannes]

• saturday night [biographical movie abt SNL and lorne michaels]

• the sopranos [tony soprano is who i think i am in my therapy sessions']

• the real housewives of beverly hills [i love lisa vanderpump]

• black doves [natalie portman is a spy in london]

• wicked [holding space for ariana grande and cynthia erivo]

• one of them days [silly goofy movie produced by THE issa rae starring keke palmer and SZA]

  

  i love going to the movies by myself

essays

• Relationships are coevolutionary loops

• Once you view this, you can’t unsee it

• Mel Robbins and Plagiarism

• Advice that actually worked for me

• the 13th step

• page 29 of Virginibus Puerisque

• deep laziness

clothing and shoes

• KHAITE Abigail jean in montgomery

• Wilfred Regal dress

• Aritzia sweatfleece sweatpants

• Aritzia boyfriend boxy zip hoodie

• Asics Gel-Kayano 14s

• MAGUIRE handmade ponyhair clogs (they’re currently on sale!!!!)

• Foldover white tall boots (not sure the brand, bought in mexico)

  

  said boot

misc

• MD paper japanese notebooks

• HOURGLASS concealer brush

• tetr app for texting yourself things

• google tasks

• beeper app - all your chats in one place

• superhuman for email [my referral link]

• do you have a soul? by foushee

• good work by paul millerd

• hot yoga flow vinyasa classes

• doechii on dissect

• perplexity Pro subscription

  

• Kevin Kelly’s advice for writing something that’s hard to explain: Write a letter to a friend telling them why it’s hard to explain, then delete the intro.

• Amal Clooney as a Visiting Professor of Practice in international law at the Blavatnik School of Government (oxford)

• shutting the fuck up

• leap and the net will appear

• private family capital is larger than private equity and venture capital combined

• while talking to people when i dont have to worry about protecting them from their own feelings or internal responses

• “Doing research was always intimately tied up with the ability to execute on the tacit knowledge you gained while doing the research. Now that they are divorced I wonder what the outcome would be for white collar work.”

• Doechii “My first solo entry is a satire about one of the lowest points in my life and has no hook. A message to smaller artists: Create whatever art you want theres really no rules.”

• “The more people use the same tools to outsource shallow thinking, the more this becomes an era that rewards deep thinkers and stochastic creatives”

• “I think you self sabotage when you like wanting the thing more than having it, maybe because having it is scary, because having it’ll ask too much of you, it’ll ask that you change for it, so it’s more comfortable edging yourself with desire, stuck at the eve of happiness”

• before sunrise turning 30 years old

• Nick Patterson, formerly with Renaissance Technologies: "...the most important thing to do in data analysis is to do the simple things right. So, here's a kind of non-secret about what we did at Renaissance: in my opinion, our most important statistical tool was simple regression with one target and one independent variable. It's the simplest statistical model you can imagine..."

i do this kind of stuff in my letters weekly, but probably monthly now because weekly is a bit hard to maintain for me atm. after posting on substack for almost 30 days straight now (4 days left!), i have decided i do not like the platform (sorry substack) and will be back with regularly scheduled programming at my normal mailing list.

at this electric juncture in my life, i'm committing to 30 days of micro-essays – a variation of my earlier ‘50 days of writing’ from 2023. while most pieces will be personal reflections mapping this transformative period, others will explore and crystallize ideas surrounding my company. writing, after all, has always been my way of making sense of pivotal moments.

you can follow along in two ways: subscribe to this substack to receive each micro-essay as it's born, landing directly in your inbox. or, if you prefer a weekly rhythm, these pieces will find their way into my newsletter – a consolidated journey of the week's thoughts, revelations and musings. your choice, your rhythm.