the blog of l.arrieta

in day-to-day meetings and coffee chats, no big deal, but when it comes to making investing or hedging decisions, beware.

there's something endearing about spending a couple thousand dollars on a brand new full-frame camera to then process the heck out of the photos to make them look as if they were taken with a $15 disposable film toy.

in every man's life, however splendid or modest, there are episodes that mark one's journey as a reader or as a person. Reading Samuel Johnson's essays is both a personal and a reader milestone.

for what would so soon destroy all the order of society, and deform life with violence and ravage, as a permission to every one to judge his own cause...

the ambition of petty accomplishments, in which we believe we’re advancing, but a wiser perspective offers the opposite diagnosis.