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10/24/2026

We gave our family a crest. I know how that sounds.

It's not about heraldry or pretending we're landed gentry. It's about something simpler: kids need a place to put abstract ideas.

"Integrity" and "stewardship" and "we finish what we start" are just words to a nine-year-old. But a symbol they can point to — one that shows up on the wall, on a note, at the start of a family meeting — gives those words a home.

The crest became shorthand. A way of saying this is who we are without a lecture. A small flag the kids feel like they belong under.

That's really all a symbol is for: it turns values from something you talk about into something you can see. And what a family can see, a family remembers.

You don't need a coat of arms. You need one visible thing that means "us." A phrase. A symbol. A ritual. Something the youngest person in the room can recognize and feel part of.

What's the one thing in your family that instantly means "us"?

10/22/2026

Every family has two or three moments that explain everything about them. Most let them quietly evaporate.

The sacrifice that started it all. The near-loss that reset everyone's priorities. The decision where the family chose its values over its convenience.

These aren't just nice stories. They're the origin code — the reason the family holds the principles it holds. And they have a shelf life. They live vividly in the person who lived them, dimly in their children, and not at all in the generation after that.

How to keep one alive:

— Interview the person who lived it. Record it. Ask not just what happened, but what it cost and what it taught.

— Write it down as a short, plain account — a page or two, not a memoir. Name the principle it produced.

— Read it out loud at a family gathering, once a year. Rituals are how stories survive.

— Let the next generation retell it in their own words. A story a child can retell is a story that's been inherited.

A family that remembers why it believes what it believes is far harder to knock off course.

What's the one story in your family that has to survive?

10/20/2026

I came across a framework recently — R360 organizes it as six forms of capital — that reframed how I think about family wealth. It's stuck with me, so I want to think out loud about it here.

The premise: if you measure a family's wealth only by what's on the statement, you're tracking the one form of capital that's easiest to rebuild — and ignoring the others that aren't.

Alongside financial capital, the framework counts intellectual, social, human, emotional, and spiritual:

— Intellectual: the knowledge, judgment, and hard-won lessons that walk out the door when a founder dies undocumented.

— Social: the relationships, reputation, and trust — a name that opens doors, or closes them.

— Human: the health, character, and flourishing of each family member.

— Emotional: the resilience to weather conflict and loss without fracturing.

— Spiritual: the sense of meaning and purpose. What the whole thing is for.

What's stayed with me is the uncomfortable implication: financial capital is the most replaceable of the six. Fortunes get rebuilt every day. Trust, character, and purpose, once lost, rarely come back.

Yet most families pour nearly all their planning energy into the one form of capital they could most easily recover.

Which of the six do you think your own family is quietly under-investing in?

10/17/2026

My kids are 3 and 1. They can't tell you what our family "stands for."

But they're watching. Constantly. Absorbing everything — long before they have the words for any of it.

That's quietly changed how I think about family values. At this age, there's no sitting them down for the conversation. The only curriculum available is my own behavior, on the ordinary days I assume nobody's really paying attention.

They won't remember what I say about generosity, or patience, or how we treat people who can't do anything for us. They'll absorb what I do — and it'll be running in the background of who they become before they can spell the words.

So the values conversation, at this stage, isn't with them. It's with myself. Am I actually living the thing I'll one day want them to inherit?

The document sets the intention. The Tuesday sets the truth.

For those of you further down the road: what did your kids absorb that you never explicitly taught?

10/15/2026

Most families "talk about money" the way they talk about the weather — reactively, vaguely, and usually when something's already gone wrong.

A family meeting fixes that by making the conversation scheduled and structured instead of tense and improvised.

A workable starting shape:

— Cadence: Quarterly is plenty to start. Annual is too rare to build a habit; monthly burns people out.

— Who's in the room: Start with the adults who can hold a real conversation. Bring the next generation in gradually, with a real role — not as an audience.

— An actual agenda: One backward-looking item (what happened), one forward-looking (what's ahead), one values item (a story, a decision, a principle). Money is present but never the whole meeting.

— A rotating chair: The founder shouldn't run it forever. Handing over the gavel is the succession training.

— Notes that survive: Someone captures decisions and principles. Over years, those notes become the family's memory.

The first two or three will feel awkward. Do them anyway. Awkward is just the sound of a family learning to talk about things it never has.

10/13/2026

If you built the wealth yourself, you're facing a problem your kids won't: you have to pass down something you were never handed.

Old-money families run on inherited infrastructure — a family office, a set of advisors, a language for money that's been spoken at the dinner table for a century. The children absorb it by osmosis.

First-generation builders — immigrants, founders, the ones who created it from nothing — have none of that. No template. No inherited vocabulary. Often no example of responsible wealth to point to, only the memory of not having any.

So they do what worked before: they work harder, and they stay quiet about the money, hoping the kids turn out fine.

And the very grit that built the fortune becomes the thing that fails to transfer it. You can't osmosis your way into wisdom you invented last decade.

The advantage first-gen families have is that they get to author the operating system instead of inheriting someone else's. But only if they treat it as something to build on purpose — not something that'll sort itself out.

If you're first-generation: what's the one thing about money you wish someone had taught you before you had it?

10/10/2026

I run a reading challenge for my nieces and nephews.

It started small — a way to get books in their hands over a long summer. It's quietly become one of the more important things I do.

Here's what I didn't expect: it was never really about the reading.

It was about setting a standard, celebrating effort in public, and giving the kids a shared language that has nothing to do with screens or scores. It was about them learning that this family notices what you build, not just what you buy.

That's the whole thing, isn't it. Legacy doesn't wait for the estate plan. It's built in the small, repeatable rituals — the ones a family does so often they stop noticing they're doing them.

You don't need $100 million to start transferring values. You need a Tuesday, a little consistency, and the willingness to be the one who keeps the ritual alive.

What's a small ritual from your own family that turned out to matter more than it looked?

10/08/2026

"Family constitution" sounds grand. In practice it's the least glamorous — and most protective — document a family can write.

It is not a legal instrument. It won't hold up in court, and it isn't meant to. A will decides who gets what. A constitution decides how a family decides — long after the founder is gone.

What it typically covers:

— Values. Not a poster of nice words. The two or three non-negotiables the family actually organizes around.

— Decision rights. Who has a say, on what, and how disagreements get resolved before they become feuds.

— Money's purpose. What this wealth is for — and, just as important, what it is not for.

— Entry and exit. How the next generation earns a seat. What happens when someone wants out.

— Stewardship expectations. What it means to be a custodian rather than an owner.

The magic isn't the finished document. It's the conversations required to write it. Most families have never once said out loud what they actually believe about money. The drafting forces it.

The document is the residue of the conversation. The conversation is the point.

If your family sat down to write this, what's the first thing you'd argue about?

10/06/2026

Three generations. That's the average lifespan of a family fortune.

The first generation builds it. The second maintains it. The third watches it dissolve — and usually can't explain how.

The instinct is to blame the markets, or taxes, or a bad advisor. But the data points somewhere less comfortable: it's almost never an investment problem. It's a governance problem.

The wealth was transferred. The operating system behind it was not.

Nobody handed down how decisions get made. How disagreements get resolved. What the money is actually for. The first generation carried all of that in their head — and it died with them.

A balance sheet is easy to inherit. Judgment isn't.

The families that make it past the third generation almost always did one unglamorous thing: they wrote the operating system down, and they taught it on purpose.

What do you think is harder to pass on — the wealth, or the wisdom to hold it?

“The business of life is the acquisition of memories.”I recently came across that quote, and it immediately reminded me ...
07/23/2026

“The business of life is the acquisition of memories.”

I recently came across that quote, and it immediately reminded me of one of the biggest lessons from Die With Zero by Bill Perkins.

As someone who has spent much of my adult life focused on goals, growth, production, and financial success, this book challenged me to think differently about what wealth is actually for.

Recently, my family had the opportunity to spend time with extended family at the beach. We originally planned a shorter trip, but at the last minute we decided to stay a few extra days.

From a purely practical standpoint, it didn’t make much sense.

There was work waiting back home. Responsibilities. Costs associated with extending the trip.

But those extra days gave our kids the chance to spend more time playing in the sand, swimming in the ocean, chasing each other around the house, and building memories with their cousins.

Years from now, I won’t remember the emails that waited for me.

But I’ll remember watching Zion run toward the water with his cousins. I’ll remember family dinners, laughter, and seeing relationships deepen.

That’s what Die With Zero is really about.

Not spending recklessly.

Not abandoning financial discipline.

But recognizing that money is a tool designed to help us maximize life experiences at the moments when those experiences matter most.

One of my favorite concepts from the book is the idea of “memory dividends.”

The vacation ends.

The experience doesn’t.

You get to relive it through stories, photos, conversations, and the joy of remembering it for decades to come.

The older I get, the more I’m realizing that wealth accumulation and memory accumulation shouldn’t be competing goals.

The purpose of wealth is to create the freedom to invest in what matters most.

And sometimes, the highest-return investment isn’t found in the stock market.

Sometimes it’s a few extra days at the beach with family.

What memory have you invested in recently that paid a bigger dividend than you expected?

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