2022 was filled with a lot of ups and down, the most in the past few years which says a lot given those were COVID years. I’m very grateful, though, because the highs were good and the lows a good lesson and time for reflection.

2021 was a year of transition, both personally and professionally. I left HBS to found HeadsUp and move to San Francisco.

I'm considering starting a newsletter so have been jotting down thoughts from content I'm consuming. This is a first take and mainly just a…

This morning, I joined a conference call hosted by the student association at HBS where Arthur Brooks and Len Schlesinger talked about how…

2019 was a transformative year, a sliver of which I would have predicted a year earlier.

After nearly six years, I left FiscalNote last month. Now, I'm excited to join Costanoa Ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area for an internship before starting the next chapter of my life as an MS/MBA candidate at the Harvard Business School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

2018 was an incredible year. Certainly not the easiest but when has incredible ever been easy? This year, I went from not programming since 2015 to coding 40 hours a week on top of a full-time job, vaguely considering business school to cramming for the GRE and applying, and leading a team of 5 on the FiscalNote mobile app to a team of almost 20 across web & mobile engineering, design, and QA.

I hit some goals like reading more and working on coding projects, but others, like monetizing my photography, didn’t quite land. I learned a lot about focus, balancing time, and how travel fuels fresh ideas. For 2018, I’m keeping it simple: launch a new project, read 18 books, hit some new lifting PRs, meet more people, and complete five side projects. Excited to see where these goals take me!

2016 was a tumultuous year for the world, with Brexit and Trump’s rise to the presidency erupting a new normal, but amidst the chaos, 2016 turned out to be both exciting and calming for me. I grew to love DC, made a handful of new friends, visited Berlin, Yosemite, Hong Kong, and Bejing, and got into the habit of consistently reading. Of course, it wasn’t all perfect, but I’m appreciative the lessons I learned along the way and how all these experiences, both good and bad, have helped me develop clarity and resolve around how I want to grow in the future.

Gerald and Anna give feedback on one of Daryl's projects Let's face it, it's hard to give feedback that matters. Feedback that matters…