Explaining to my daughter the difference between private and secretive. She wondered why I asked that a Venmo payment be set to private and to put a “.” in the description. She asked me why I was being so secretive.

The shortage of accountants affects more than CPA firms and corporate accounting departments. Municipalities are impacted too.

Fortune

The accountant shortage is so real that dozens of cities have no credit score because they didn't file financial paperwork in time | Fortune

“We are facing a talent shortage — there is no doubt about that."

80,000 transactions coded to “Ask My Accountant” in FTX’s Quickbooks. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Just because you have software doesn’t mean you know how to use it.

Unexpectedly spent some time today orange-pilling someone who bought bitcoin about 2 years ago (probably due to FOMO) and hasn’t considered it since. He still has it on Coinbase so I told him to get it off the exchange. He’s considering buy more regularly. A possible win if he follows through.

A superpower to develop: listen to an audio book at 2x speed while doing task by rote. For the past two Sundays, I’ve listened to 3 books on 2x speed while meal prepping for a few hours. This doesn’t work with every book (e.g. don’t pick von Mises’s “Human Action”) and the task is one you can do on autopilot.