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Real Estate

Why We Turned Our Backyard Into an Asset, Not Just a Yard

The pool, the pergola, the fire pit — every dollar we put into this backyard was a decision I ran through the same filter I use for any investment. Here's the math behind it.

7 min read

Building Hopscotch

Starting Hopscotch: What Week One of Building a Tech Company Actually Looked Like

No pitch deck, no funding, just a day job, a notebook, and a problem I couldn't stop thinking about. This is the first real-time update on building Hopscotch from scratch.

5 min read

Budgeting

The Unglamorous Budget That Let Me Buy a Second Property

It wasn't a raise. It wasn't luck. It was eighteen months of a spreadsheet I was almost too embarrassed to show anyone — until it worked.

6 min read