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luis arrieta

luis arrieta

california

69 posts

when Batu Khan set out for the Eurasian Steppe...

how could he lead so many victorious campaigns and cover such vast territories if the subreddit r/CampingGear had not come to existence yet?

home scene

a royal pain to set up this trampoline... but an endless supply of fun.

virtue over fortune in investing and other pastimes

since you can't help yourself, then let's use the word "virtue" for the disciplined application of your method, and the word "fortune" for the outcome of your "investments."

what we talk about when we talk about correlation

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

making photos look old

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.

the day I finished The Rambler

the day I finished The Rambler

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.

the victim card on Christmas Eve

the victim card on Christmas Eve

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...

beware the ambition of petty accomplishments

beware the ambition of petty accomplishments

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

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