For better or for worse, our house’s sound system is based on Apple’s Airplay system. We have Homepods in most rooms and it works great. When I wanted to have music on our outdoor porch, however, I couldn’t find any … Continue reading
Remembering Bill Harvey, 1946-2018
I was the luckiest of Bill Harvey’s three children — luckiest because, as the oldest, I got to know him the longest. I feel so profoundly grateful to have had this man as my father. He taught me so much, and … Continue reading
Free VFR Kneeboard Flight Planner
I created a simple paper VFR flight planner and like to keep it on my kneeboard for VFR flights. I think of it like a checklist of things to research and write down before any flight, and a scratchpad to … Continue reading
Fear of Flying: Reflections on My First 100 Hours as a Pilot
Last weekend, after landing the airplane following an ideal flight on a clear, cool, cloudless March day, I performed the last element of my typical post-flight ritual – entering the flight into my logbook – and realized that I had … Continue reading
Critical Factors for Career Success
One perk of my job is that I am occasionally asked to give a short talk to Undergraduate finance students on what to expect when they enter the work force at a finance or investment company. I developed this short … Continue reading
Getting Your Kindle to Play Nice With an Apple Airport Extreme Wifi Network
I have had three Kindles, and none of them have been able to reliably sustain a connection to my home’s wifi network. My setup is as follows: * Airport Extreme * Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite After many hours of research, … Continue reading
Our Trip to Thailand
What follows is a lightly edited, but mostly stream of consciousness, diary of our recent trip to Thailand. We took many pictures on the trip, despite the fact that my camera broke a couple of days into the trip. I … Continue reading