About

2025-12-17

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I've always wanted to have a blog and this is it. It's mostly about the things I've learned or about ideas I have.

-Peel

My weekly meal planning workflow

2025-12-15

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I like to cook. It might be one of the few things I enjoy doing that I will keep enjoying now matter how much I do it. I think it's also because I like eating. I'm proficient enough that once I cook something once (or a couple times) I don't need to look at a recipe anymore. However, I have two issues that until recently I never figured out.

1. I can never remember what to buy when I'm in the store. I constantly have to make trips to the grocery store for 1 or 2 ingredients throughout the week. Very frustrating.
2. Once I find something I like, I cook it constantly. This is not actually the problem. The problem is that once I move out of that phase of cooking the same dish over and over I forget about it. Then I never remember to come back to it!

Finally, I've figured out a way to solve both of these...

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Can you model the entire economy?

2025-12-15

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After listening to a lot of economics podcasts the only thing I have learned is that everything is speculative. We don't know what's going to happen in the future, but smart people can take a good guess. But more interestingly sometimes we don't even know what's happened in the past and smart people again have to make a guess about why things turned out the way that they did.

So why couldn't you build a digital model of the economy that starts with adding up everything consumers bought and integrates that into the top line of the economy? Obviously we don't have access (thank god) to see every single purchase that is made, but I think we could start somewhere. To me it's wild that amazon and other retailers now just tell you "1500+ people bought this month" on every product. Certainly that could be...

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