I believe that rather than it being a case of humans versus machines, the future of financial advice more likely lies somewhere in between, where human advisors leverage artificial intelligence and automation to become smarter and more efficient at doing their jobs.

Looking back at my first job, even when I was asked to do something seemingly menial, unglamorous, or very difficult, I always went all-in. In my most trying moments with managers I liked the least, I did not give up, complain, or slack off.

There is, in fact, nothing easy about being an entrepreneur.

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.