I started my new job this week and I'm working hard to get up to speed and make a strong initial impression. Along with this, I'm cleaning up my sleeping/exercise habits and making more of an effort to take small breaks throughout the day and go outside + enjoy nature.

From a hobby/passion project perspective, I'm working with a friend on launching financial education courses that teach core financial concepts using first principles. Not financial advice, but rather detailed guides on key ideas & questions that we feel are especially relevant in 2023. We've noticed that formal education prioritizes information recall rather than comprehensive understanding, which does no one any favors when the topics can be as complex as those from the financial world.

One thing that always bothered me about public education was the implied but required acceptance of the lesson's conclusions and the minimal space and time to actively question them. A simplified example would be the following statement, "the Fed targets a 2% inflation rate because mild inflation is good for the economy."

Right from the get-go, students need to accept that the Fed knows what it's doing, the 2% inflation rate is rooted in some evidence or science, and inflation is good (which implies deflation is bad). When the most basic tenants of economic theory are assumed rather than justified, it's hard to reconcile what we experience on a daily basis with the material that we're told is effectively gospel.

So, my friend and I are looking to create content that teaches things differently and makes no bones about what should be passively assumed vs. what should be actively justified.

We're excited to get started and are taking the next few months to write the content and gameplan a launch.