Thinking for a Living

Recent Notes

  • Ling Ma: Severance

    Embarrassingly, I stumbled on Ling Ma's "Severance" by accident. I'm sure it's a common confusion, but I bought it thinking it was related to the incredible Apple TV+ show of the same name.

  • Raising Food-Conscious Kids Without the Guilt

    We just had another fun and successful Halloween in the Christopher house. My daughters both dressed up, met up with friends from the neighborhood for trick-or-treating, watched movies, ate an unreasonable amount of candy, and had slumber parties with friends.

  • Buying Choices: How Unspent Money Can Shape Your Future

    What is money for? It can be for fun, it can provide a sense of control or safety, or it can be a metric people use to tell if they are winning in life. For the wealthy, it's certainly the latter.

  • Installing Material Web Components for use in a Sveltekit Application

    I recently switched this website from IBM's Carbon design system to the Material UI web components library. Carbon was appealing for it's solid support and a Svelte-specific library, but I found its corporate aesthetic felt somewhat rigid, with limited customization options.

  • Life's Best Training Partner

    Much of our society is built on the institution of marriage, yet it is one of the few arrangements we commonly enter into that can be incredibly dangerous. The statistics on first-time marriages, while not as dire as the overall average, have a painfully high failure rate (40%). A marriage ending poorly can have ripple effects, decimating your net worth and complicating the rest of your life.