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I don’t value a $200 train ticket?
One of the most valuable concepts I learned in business school is Willingness to Pay (WTP). Basically, how much is a customer willing to pay for a product or service which is important in pricing & marketing of said product or service. Some preamble: I went to a friend’s wedding in VA last weekend. He…
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Financial goals for the rest of 2026
I got my first paycheck. I love the taste the cash money. Yummy yum yum! But as I get paid, I’ve started thinking about if I have any goals for 2026. Goal #1 Survive bitch! Self-explanatory but I have some credit cards to pay off. I put part of August and all of my September…
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The art of the pivot
This post is gonna walk through the key things that helped me change careers without going broke to pursue my MBA. I first wrote about pursuing my MBA to work in film specifically in an earlier post in 2022 – The Weight of Dreaming Big. I knew from the day I started my old job…
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Saying yes to lifestyle inflation
I’m writing this after my first full week at new job. It had an 856 days sabbatical from quitting my old job in middle of nowhere CA to getting my MBA to a new job in NYC baby! The purpose of this post isn’t deep. I wanted to talk about all the things I’m excited…
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Unstructured Time
Some updates: I graduated from NYU with my MBA. I spent 5 months actively searching for a job since March and I got one that starts at the end of August. Hooray!! So I ended up giving myself an unplanned summer break. Now that I’ve had all this unstructured time, what do I have to show…
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2025 recap and realizations
I want to start off by saying this is the year I began heavily outsourcing my brain to AI. I’m not fully sure yet if that’s good or bad although, I used no AI to write this post. #PROUD. 2025 has been an amazing year for me despite it being a not-so-good year for the…
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Sundance & Bay Area Trip recap
I spent the last week of my winter break visiting some homies in my old stomping grounds (aka Northern California) and attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah (a life long goal). I gave myself a $500 spending budget for the week and I spent $514 so I am very proud of myself for sticking…
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Get me off this mountain
TL:DR I have regrets about spending over $2k on a ski trip. I recently went to Black Ski, an annual ski trip for MBA students across the country. For many months, I’ve dreaded going on this trip but I thought to myself: “YOLO”. If anyone remembers my Mexico Pity Party post, the vibes on this…
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Getting my spark back
There’s been something off about me lately. I can’t really explain it but I just feel it. I’ve been feeling more uninspired than normal. I listened to this book recently called Everything I know about love by Dolly Alderton. I’m loosely paraphrasing, but, in the book, she mentioned how at some point the only joy…
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$146,142.85
That, my friends, (based on today’s numbers) is how much I need to make as a starting base salary + bonus in 2026 to live a comfortable life. Of course, my definition of comfortable is very privileged. I don’t want a roommate and I am assuming I’ll continue traveling to new, great places. That is…
