About

Hi, I'm Jake.
I'm trying to be a renaissance man.

I read a lot, I write software, I'm a little obsessed with personal finance, and I take fitness more seriously than is strictly reasonable. I also make YouTube videos about all of it.

I don't think you have to pick one thing. The old ideal — curious about everything, and genuinely good at a lot of it — is the one I'm chasing. This site is all the threads in one place, and an honest attempt to do each of them well.

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Lives

Sellersburg, Indiana

Works

Software, mostly

Trains

CrossFit

Reads

~25 books a year

What I believe

A few operating principles

Systems over goals

I trust loops, not finish lines. Build the machine that keeps aiming.

Less, but better

Minimalism as a forcing function. Fewer things, chosen carefully, kept a long time.

Notice on purpose

Most progress is just paying attention to what you were ignoring — money, habits, time.

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