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I write a weekly email where I share the best of my creations, reflections, and pensées.

White Noise contains an amalgam of fictional prose and useful, nonfictional insight derived from my indiscriminate reading, listening, conversing, thinking, and real-life experiencing.

These writings represent my attempt to make sense of the content I consume and thoughts that give me pause in today’s information deluge. The act of putting pen to paper helps elucidate the what, the why, and the how of things.

I don’t kid myself thinking that any great human truth will emerge from my writings. That said, if I help another unearth some unrecognized connection, simplicity, or realization, I consider it a small victory.

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White Noise is a work of experimentation. I view it as a sort of thinking aloud, a stress testing of my nascent ideas. Through it, I hope to sharpen my opinions against the whetstone of other people’s feedback, commentary, and input.

If you want to discuss any of the ideas or musings mentioned above or have any books, papers, or links that you think would be interesting to share on a future edition of White Noise, please reach out to me.

Read previous issues:

• The Life Line

• The True Believers and Useful Idiots of the Academic Industrial Complex

• Why Me?

• How to Deal with Bad Actors in Fundraising and Life | Ignore Ghosts, Laugh at Clowns, and Ban Players

• The Sylvan Show: How Nature Nurtures

• 10 Six-word Stories

• Nobody Reads Anymore

• Neurological Warfare

• Past Performance is not Indicative of Future Results

• The Parable of the Pebble

• The Hard Truth about Simple Things

• The Passing Present of Parents

• From Boys to Men to Friends

• Love is like Physics

• Nutella Lessons

• Love, Unrequited

• Confessions of a Nostalgia Junkie

• Be Selfish to Be Selfless

• Against Almost

• Here is There Without the T

• The Best of 2023

• Sadness is Dough, Happiness is Bread

• Nobody Knows Anything

• The Entrepreneurial Storm

• Remembrance of Tasks Past

• Beware Black Friday

• Why You Should Fear False Equivalence

• Say Less, Think More

• The Artist's Prayer

• Getting Down in the Dirt

• Happy Is as Happy Does

• When Cancer Infects Colleges

• You Say, I Say

• You Will Die

• On Introspection

• Appearing on the Work in Progress Podcast

• The Chicago Formula for Good, Impactful Work

• A Walk Among the Tombstones

• How Life Imitates Golf

• Dante's Nine Circles of Hell: Updated for the 21st Century

• What the American Flag Means to Me

• This Writing Life

• Ad Astra per Aspera

• Towards Science Fact

• Speaking about my Syndrome

• When Things Fall Apart

• On Pain

• The Best Investment You Can Make

• Verbal Portrait No. 5

• A Short Note on Notes

• The Horse Race Theory of Investing

• Skating to Where the Puck is Going

• More and Less

• The Enemy is Us

• A Public Service Announcement regarding The First Law of Motion

• Words, Wardrobes, and Worlds

• How to Write Good

• "An Education is the Lightest Burden You’ll Ever Carry"

• White Noise Wrapped: 2022

• This New Year

• Miracles

• From the Archives: On Gratitude

• Armageddon in Retrospect: FTX and SBF

• Trading the Pen for the Mic

• The Startup Scaries

• Verbal Portrait No. 4

• All the Things We Cannot See: The Rise of the Information Nexus

• Mortality and Memory

• Against the Inner Ring of Venture Capital

• How to Kill a Startup: A Short, Ten Step Guide

• "People are our Power" | A Conversation with Lindsay Kaplan, Co-Founder of Chief.com

• Curate the Internet, Comprehend the World: Introducing Startupy

• Murphy Has Come and His Law is that of the Land" | Cyber Patterns Podcast: Episode #25

• This Time is Different

• The Same Strokes for Similar Folks

• The Very Stuff of Life

• This is Good Material

• On Good Friday

• Sisyphus

• The Need to Read

• Once Upon a Time

• Dia idir sinn agus an t-olc | "God between us and all harm"

• Why Care About Crypto?

• On Focus amidst Frenzy

• Glory to Ukraine | Слава Украине!

• Making Dollars Using Sense

• Invest, Young (Wo)Man!

• On Gratitude

• A Thousand Words

• Less is More

• ✔️ Just Do It ✔️

• When Punishments are Gifts

• White Noise Wrapped

• A Christmas Prayer and Benediction

• Enough

• The Eternal Sunshine of Life Lived Fully

• The Life-Changing Magic of Saying "I Love You" More Often

• On Hope

• Thank a Veteran — Today and Every Other Day

• An Interview with Atlassian Co-Founder and Co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes

• 29 Thoughts for 29 Years

• Oldies but Goodies

• None of Us Are Whole

• The Charge of the Employed Brigade

• On Growth

• Curation as a Cure

• Visiting the Village Global Podcast

• Remembering Pop

• The Flavors of the Week

• Stopping by the Silicon Street Podcast

• Soliloquy on a Ski Slope

• Un Peu de Français pour Les "Nouvelles" Années Folles

• 🎧 Verbal Portrait No. 3 (Audio)

• An Interview with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke

• A Sincere Thank You

• 🎧 Verbal Portrait No. 2 (Audio)

• Veteran’s Day 2020 🇺🇸

• Time for a Deep Breath

• Ten Thoughts about This and That

• 🎧 Verbal Portrait No. 1 (Audio)

• Why I Write

• Don’t Crave Attention, Pay Attention

• Boring is Beautiful

• Stop Tweeting, Start Thinking

• In Remembrance of 9/11

• On Ice Hockey

• Short Story No. 2

• Short Story (Introduction) No. 2

• Verbal Portrait No. 3

• The Waves of Suffering: Part II

• The Waves of Suffering: Part I

• The Morning Commute

• Answering my most Frequently Asked Question

• Tetris with Word and Phrase

• A Glaring Problem

• Stoicism as Salve

• Standing Firm

• Short Story (Introduction) No. 1

• Verbal Portrait No. 2

• Verbal Portrait No. 1