Reclaim your time, find your mojo, become financially literate.| Crispy Doc
I recently reinvented my work schedule. It was an idea that began to marinate months ago as my father faded away in front of me, gaining momentum in his final days. It required taking a…| Crispy Doc
Reclaim your time, find your mojo, become financially literate.| Crispy Doc
23 years ago, I took my first international trip as a backpacker through Europe. It was my baguettes, bananas and drinkable yogurt tour, since these were the foods I could afford as I made my…| Crispy Doc
Reclaim your time, find your mojo, become financially literate.| Crispy Doc
The mathematical concept of degrees of freedom is familiar enough to recall having studied when I got my MPH, but not relevant enough on a daily basis to remember the definition. It has vaguely to do with the number of values in a statistical calculation that can vary, affecting the distribution curve of any given statistical model. If that is ... Read More| Crispy Doc
I took a walk this week - it was perfect California summer day of clear skies and sunshine illuminating the Pacific. It was made even better by the company of a tier one friend. The…| Crispy Doc
Back in 2016, I fired my financial advisor and moved all of our assets to Vanguard. It took just shy of 2 years of intensive reading of books and blogs (and not a little bit…| Crispy Doc
Reclaim your time, find your mojo, become financially literate.| Crispy Doc
It's now three and a half years since I left clinical medicine and leapt at the opportunity to put my population health hat on for an administrative position within the hospital system that I'd devoted…| Crispy Doc
I am fortunate to count among my friends a few people outside of my cohort. One older friend is a physician colleague I've known, liked and trusted from my prior life in the ED. We…| Crispy Doc
The liberal arts undergraduate eduction is dead; you must know what you want to be by age 16. This is what you might conclude from looking around at the friends of my high schoolers. A…| Crispy Doc
Sometimes the people we love are those most likely to sabotage us by insisting on forcing our unconventional narrative to fit within their traditional story framework. My wife's grandmother, a widow, had developed dementia and…| Crispy Doc
I recently called every member of my physician group as part of an effort to incorporate feedback on a group policy I was trying to develop. I'm fortunate to work with folks I truly respect…| Crispy Doc
Our recent summer travel highlighted a new and reasonable expectation from my kids: a daily dose of seclusion. The kids are 14 and 16, respectively, and it's not surprising that they want time to themselves…| Crispy Doc
As a DIY independent traveler, I assume full responsibility for our vacations: optimizing credit card points to purchase airfare, reserving Airbnb accommodations, verifying that sites of interest are open on the dates we schedule visits…| Crispy Doc