Hi, I'm Chris. I live in New York.

Quick Hits:

• I spent 18 years in finance. You can read about that here.

• Favorite place I've traveled to is South Africa.

• Born and bred New Yorker

• My interest in cooking sways between just getting things on the table and the more scientific, a la Serious Eats. Also, love figuring out how to re-purpose leftovers and random ingredients that have been sitting in the fridge.

• I have probably eaten less vegetables than anyone else you have ever known.

What I like to do:

• Skiing

  • Favorite Mountain: Whistler

  • Favorite Area: Utah, SLC area (Cottonwoods)

• Paddleboarding

  • Pier 84, Manhattan - No, the Hudson is not gross!

  • Best Paddle: Circumnaving Manhattan

• Climbing

  • Nothing cool, almost all gym climbing and some Gunks

What I like to think about:

• Investing

  • Compounders

  • Permanent Portfolios

  • Process oriented

• Learning

  • Oscillation between First Principles and Empiricism

  • Layers of Abstraction

  • Using analogs to communicate between teachers and learners

  • Tacit Knowledge / Naturalistic Decision Making

• Automation / Iterative Improvement

• Systems Thinking

N=1: Things I've done to shake up my life

• Learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

• Experimenting with Paleo/Primal/Carnivore

• Meditation

• Journaling

• Teaching my wife to snowboard

• Learning to paddleboard

• Learning to climb

• Yoga

• Building this website

• Improving my writing

• Week of surf school

• Week of golf school