Writing

I took my task list analog this year with the Bullet Journal Method. Migrating tasks and running out of room for notes sent me back to digital, with a bot that manages my tasks in Apple Reminders.

Whether you're running a business or chasing a better version of yourself, you must seek opportunities to rid yourself of things you shouldn't do.

There are two types of CPAs. Hiring the wrong one can prevent you from getting the insight your business needs.

How I built a self-maintaining knowledge base that links meeting notes, people, and initiatives automatically.

Outcomes are not binary. You’ll make better decisions when you consider more than two outcomes.

The statement of cash flows shows where your cash came from and where it went. Here's how operating, investing and financing activities get you to your ending cash balance.

The balance sheet isn't as popular as the profit and loss, but it's the most useful financial statement. Here's how assets, liabilities and equity fit together, and why it has to balance.

If financial statements held a popularity contest, the profit and loss would win. I think it's overrated. Here are its five sections, in plain English, and why detail is earned.

Many small business owners don't have a good pulse on their business. Here are the three basic financial statements, what each one tells you, and why you review them together.

Only a handful of financial metrics are needed to understand a company’s health.

I thought I had the perfect background to run a business. I didn't. Your expertise is the present inside the box, but running a business means knowing how to build the box.

"My bookkeeper just quit, and I have two weeks to find a new one." Ask these three interview questions when you hire a bookkeeper, so that story doesn't become yours.

Financial statements are made of small building blocks.

The most straightforward lessons are sometimes the hardest to execute consistently.

Podcasters can hold live events now too. My wife and I saw Andrew Huberman at The Wiltern, where he threaded one theme, the seesaw, through topics he can't connect on his podcast.

My life didn't go according to plan. A boat out of Vietnam, a refugee camp in Malaysia, then America. Today I turn 50, and I can't imagine being luckier.