How to Pick a Health Insurance PlanHealth insurance options are confusing. Here’s how I chose my current health insurance plan.Oct 28, 2024Oct 28, 2024
You cannot maximize both God and moneyI’ve long wrestled to reconcile Jesus’ teachings warnings against saving money to the obvious practical need to save for retirement. This…Jul 3, 2024Jul 3, 2024
Escaping Evidence-Based Practice Jail for Public Service EntrepreneursAnybody with extreme goals for a public service — like abolishing child protective services — should aim to create such compelling…May 31, 2024May 31, 2024
A Personal Parenting Tech ManifestoMy first daughter is in 3rd grade, and her friends are starting to get cell phones. She joined a text thread with a few school friends…Mar 5, 2024Mar 5, 2024
Uncle-splaining the Economics of AdultingMy niece is a high school senior. This post is a compilation of conceptual tools for my niece’s toolkit as she leaves home, picks a…Oct 13, 2023Oct 13, 2023
IT Alters the Marginal Cost of Meaningful RelationshipKeep reading for a very wonky look at how a hybrid world threatens relationship building and what to do about it.Sep 19, 2023Sep 19, 2023
How the Other Mode Lives: Age of Family Formation in the CPS Fertility SupplementAll the parents at my daughter’s kindergarten picnic seem well into our 30s. But the twenty-year-old landscaper I hired last weekend showed…Jul 18, 2023Jul 18, 2023
Many Applications of AI are RepugnantThe rollout of artificial intelligence (AI) is a moral minefield. AI can do many things society is not comfortable with, from the obviously…Mar 3, 2023Mar 3, 2023
Simultaneity is Holding Back the MetaverseSynchronicity: The true secret of the Internet explains a lot about the metaverse’s troubles. It’s a short web essay from 2000 arguing that…Feb 19, 2023Feb 19, 2023
The Bay Area has been Preparing for a Housing Supply Shock. It came.Bay Area housing values are doing great, even after the Covid WFH shock. Maybe that’s why California is finally starting to build.Sep 19, 2022Sep 19, 2022
