A not too uncommon conversation that I have with my patients, goes something like this. Me: So has anything else been bothering you? Male patient: No Male patient’s wife: Why don’t you tell the doctor about how whenever you lie down flat you can’t breathe? Male patient: (Looks to me and rolls his eyes) Me: […]
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Premature Departure
I received some very sad and unwelcome news yesterday. One of my high school classmates died unexpectedly. She and I were not close friends in high school and it’s a tricky business remembering someone after they are gone ,which all makes my memory seem somewhat suspect. But still, feel I remember her well. And what […]
Visible Iceberg Parts
Market timing is for the birds. Except of course, when it isn’t. Tonight I thought I would write about one of my favorite investments. Interestingly, it is an investment that I do not hold much of a position in right now. Which kind of makes me a market timer. But I’m getting ahead of myself. […]
Gravy
The miles game is not a discrete object. It cannot be looked at from multiple angles and judged to be a specific thing. Instead it is malleable and plastic. And so it can not help but become a reflection of the player who plays it. In my mind there are three categories of (serious) miles […]
Embracing Prejudice
If there’s one quote that I’m really a sucker for it is this one; “This above all: to thine own self be true.” That Shakespeare was quite a fellow. In this one simple line he captures so much essential wisdom. Off the top of my head this truism suggests that we should all aspire to […]
Pitching Camp
Growing up, I don’t ever remember going camping. Backpacking yes, camping no. My father was a bit on the extreme side, you see. (Fortunately these traits are not at all dominant) so backpacking meant packing light, and fishing for dinner, and carrying heavy things for long distances into the Stanislaus wilderness area with the entire […]
Into The Wild
I’m excited to go on a camping trip with my family for the next few days by the beautiful Mckenzie river in the southwestern Oregon Cascades. Although I will surely be doing some writing, it is very doubtful that I will be posting in that Wifi desert. So Happy 4th. And we’ll talk soon. -Miles […]
Systemic Conflict
I’m in the middle of a terrific book by Daniel Kahneman entitled Thinking Fast And Slow. This book was given to me by my good friend Keiki, and for good reason. It’s changing the way I think about consciousness. It also provides hard evidence for something that I’ve suspected for a long time. Namely that my […]
Slow Motion
When I first moved to Portland from Los Angeles, I couldn’t believe how fun it was to drive here. Driving in Los Angeles had meant spending three hours a day trapped in my car going 10 to 15 miles an hour in bumper-to-bumper. During those rare times when there was not a traffic jam, there […]
Manufactured Crisis
There are many interesting questions in personal-finance. And one of them is; how much cash does one need for an emergency fund? There are many schools of thought on this one. Conventional wisdom seems to be that you should have six months living expenses set aside in an FDIC bank account. Others argue that you […]
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