About Gabe

This is the non-cartoon version of me, by the way.

You've read about pages. Their rhythm is unmistakable "Aside from his professional career, Gabe loves skiing, biking (blah, blah, blah)."

This is not that page.

This is the anti-resume. A place for you to learn the texture of my mind and the moments that've shaped me.


Unusual skills:

  • Being curious

  • Learning things (that I'm curious about)

  • Explaining things (that I just learned)

  • Being calm under pressure

  • Storytelling

  • Enthusiasm

  • Optimism


Intellectual Role Models:

I believe in vacationing in the minds of others. You might just find something that you want to take home.

Steven Levitt: Coauthor of Freakonomics. An unconventional thinker, and the first person who made me consider quitting as a strategy.

Yul Kwon: An unconventional path to success.

Daniel Kahneman: If you haven't read the book Thinking, Fast and Slow, it might be the greatest lesson you'll ever have about your own brain.

Yuval Noah Harari: I always felt like the world was a social construct, but this man was the first to put it in plain words.

George Mack: The man who unlocked the affinity for agency in my mind. Read the essay linked in his name. It might change your life.

Oliver Sacks: A free soul and master storyteller.

Shaan Puri: Someone who's successful in all the right ways: lots of money, lots of time, lots of laughs.


Core beliefs:

  • Free will does not exist, but thinking about that is a waste of time

  • To be honest is to be kind

  • Goalposts are meant to be moved

  • Pretty much every aphorism in the world is true

  • Do it your way. It'll be much more fun

  • Success = Luck x Action


Hobbies

  • Snowboarding & skiing

  • Investing

  • Business

  • Lifting

  • Triathlons (at a very amature level)

  • Podcasts

  • Obsessing and optimizing small aspects of my health

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