Americans at ~every level of income say they need a 30%-50% raise "to feel happy." Make $50k? "I need about 75k." Make $75k? "I need about 100k." Make $150k? "I need 200k." Make $200k? "I need 350k."

It’s Christ the King Sunday. Today, we are reminded that it is Jesus who will right every wrong, who will quiet every cynic, who will answer every cry for justice, who will fix this mess we’ve gotten ourselves into. The crooked ruler and the just one are all just stewards.

Quality reflections on the intertwining of personal and professional identity in startups. "...A startup founder lacks this distinction between personal identity and work identity, and this is the key to the “sale-blues” phenomenon and other behavior." longform.asmartbear.com/identity-selli…

The economy is showing good signs yet Americans perception of the economy is still poor. My take: so many people don't feel better off than their parents were (age buying first home, size of home, affording vacations, etc.), and vice versa. vox.com/2023/11/20/239…

Go Army, sink Navy!

"If dissatisfaction can be learned, so too can satisfaction. Instead of treating satisfaction as a consequence of particular outcomes, the whims of unhealthy correlations with things like wealth, status, or more trophies, we should treat it like a skill" hbr.org/2023/01/why-su…

PSA: today’s the last day to give in tax-year 2023. 🗓️ Bank and card contributions to your donor-advised fund (Charityvest), or any charity, are tax-deductible up until midnight local time tonight. 🏦 No better way to close out the year than giving. Happy New Year! 🥳🥂

A List of Predictions Made in 1924 About 2024 🧵

Sign of getting older: how excited I am the city is repaving my neighborhood streets

My most valuable skill as an entrepreneur? Handling pain while staying focused on opp’ties to serve / grow Building what you believe in is a joy, but repeated disappointment in the process is counter-formative to the heart even if it goes well Building is a spiritual journey

His mercies are *new* every morning

New players in the DAF market — many of them started by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs — include Daffy, Charityvest, Chariot, and phlnthrp.com/3Sm4frg. phlnthrp.com/3O4WF1I

DAFs are changing philanthropy, and we will continue to see this play out in 2024. 🚀 Thank you to The Chronicle of Philanthropy for featuring us in their recent article about some donor-advised funds that are disrupting the space. philanthropy.com/article/how-do… #DonorAdvisedFund

This partnership also marks the public launch of Charityvest for Advisors. Charityvest for Advisors enables any wealth advisor to offer a comprehensive charitable giving program leveraging Charityvest’s modern financial technology for DAFs under their own brand. Stephen Kump,

We haven’t lost the capacity to pay attention. 179 studies, 32 countries: on tests of concentration from 1990 to 2021, children didn’t decline—and adults actually improved. When we want to focus, we can. Our distraction issues are a matter of motivation, not ability.

Applications are open for Praxis HQ business and nonprofit accelerators — offering $100K opt-in capital and $50K grant respectively. Highly selective but for the right founders motivated by Christian faith to build redemptively, an amazing opportunity. praxislabs.org

Any candidate running for a relevant political office on a platform of making it illegal for TV commercials to be louder than the normal programming — they would have my vote. Or you could just make this happen, FCC.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. -Victor Frankl

A lot of good wisdom here.

"If you want ideas for startups, one of the most valuable things you could do is find a middle-sized non-technology company and spend a couple weeks just watching what they do with computers." — Paul Graham