Chris Kaunda

Finance And Life Advice From Someone Figuring It Out

Silence

Oct 2024

I pray, but I'm lost. Am I just praying to silence?

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Komorebi

Sep 2024

When was the last time you stopped and looked at the moon?

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Service

Jul 2024

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it’s source.

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Giant

Jun 2024

It is because I stand on the shoulders of giants.

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Hero

May 2024

If a woman’s fantasy is to be wanted, a man’s is to be needed.

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Stop

Apr 2024

Take your time, love. It comes with peace of mind.

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Omelas

Mar 2024

Suffering doesn't make you better. It just makes you suffer.

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Children

Mar 2024

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul?

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Brave

Feb 2024

Remember love, that the only thing you have to do is die.

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Need

Jan 2024

And he said to them, ‘Whose image and inscription is this?’

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You

Dec 2023

I’m not in love. I tell myself this. Until you validate me. Then I can’t live without you.

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Seen

Nov 2023

And the peaches and mangoes that you could sell for me.

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Risk

Oct 2023

If we could model risk, then risk wouldn’t exist, would it?

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Advent

Sep 2023

I suck compared to NBA stars. You suck compared to me.

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Thoughts

Aug 2023

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

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Ichiro

Jul 2023

You don't get credit for preventing 100 things that never happen.

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Neptune

Jul 2023

Sensei replied, ‘what is your woman? Is she just a container for your child…’

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Autumn

Jun 2023

Those bold enough to face the darkness, are the first ones to spot the light.

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Slow

May 2023

No reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.

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Individualism

May 2023

And thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.

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Caesar

May 2023

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

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Change

May 2023

And so, if it brings me to my knees, it’s a bad religion.

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Her

Apr 2023

And so, an important question comes up. Who sets the standards?

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Dragon

Apr 2023

They don’t try to look right. They just open their petals, and turn to the light.

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Stranger

Apr 2023

For I alone know the plans I have for you. Plans for prosperity, and not disaster.

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Alone

Mar 2023

The feeling of powerlessness that turns good men cruel.

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Misfits

Mar 2023

Its hell on earth and the city’s on fire. But in hell, there’s heaven.

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Orangutans

Mar 2023

Because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out my mouth.

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Love

Feb 2023

Pain is the price of empathy in an apathetic world.

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Loneliness

Feb 2023

What happens to the people on the wrong side of average?

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Him

Feb 2023

Slightly better and slightly worse, at the same time.

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Suffering

Jan 2023

Pleasure and pain are close cousins. There isn’t one without the other.

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Order

Jan 2023

Chaos arises out of order. And order out of chaos.

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Safety

Dec 2022

It is a lot better to not be stupid than it is to be smart.

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Google

Nov 2022

Don't be evil. Do the right thing.

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Ira

Nov 2022

It gets easier, you just have to do it every day. But it does get easier.

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Spiralling

Oct 2022

How low can it go? At some point, it’s got to come back, right? Right?

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Value

Oct 2022

If you had a choice, would you pay more for something or less?

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Failure

Sep 2022

Failure - especially repeated failure - enables you to learn a lot faster.

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Time

Sep 2022

What looks big now may be a blip in hindsight. Only time will tell.

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Journey

Aug 2022

Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.

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Winter

Aug 2022

Wealth is built during the bear cycles, not the bull cycles.

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Mistakes

Aug 2022

Mistakes are hard to avoid. But costly mistakes should be avoided at all costs.

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Banks

Aug 2022

So my account recently got blocked by my bank. Why? Crypto.

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iPhones

May 2022

People still use iPhone 7s, these dinosaurs of phones?

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Discipline

May 2022

Discipline is a skill, as I have come to learn. I have failed at it, miserably.

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Android One

May 2022

The main drawing point of this initative? Clean software.

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Research

May 2022

A lack of research can be extremely costly. Its a safer bet to just do it.

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Tracking

May 2022

Financial discipline is one of the hardest things to get into.

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Data Privacy

May 2022

Its being overdone. Its time to block all promotional messages.

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Arsenal

May 2022

I'm beginning to question if I ever felt anything for her.

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Personality

May 2022

In Kenya, as with everywhere else, looking for jobs is a job itself.

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Investing

May 2022

Why do most Kenyans invest their in real estate and land?

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Manyangas

May 2022

Manyanga culture is something of an identity for the city of Nairobi.

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