Since I was a kid I’ve loved using economics to figure out how the world works, but my first career was in corporate marketing, which really disappointed my mother.

On the side I gambled on dot-coms, retiring at 25 to a remote Thai island. One day I speedboated in for provisions, walked into an internet cafe, and discovered I’d lost all my money in the crash. So I bartended in Japan, then returned to marketing at a Japanese multinational, then went back for the PhD in economics and became an MBA professor in decidedly un-woke Taiwan. Where I failed to buy enough Bitcoin to retire again.

Nowadays I’m an economist at Heritage and I make daily videos on economics and freedom, basically what I used to teach but fewer hung-over grad students.