May Highlights
(Actually more like highlights from past few months)
Moved into new Apartment
After all that happened back at "The Grand," (they are still remediating the faulty plumbing), I moved across the river into the Denver Highlands. A wonderful little neighborhood, I feel more at home than ever, surrounded with many young professionals, not just recent college grads.
Started new job at CBRE
After a little uncertainty around misalignment with my former job, I was tapped in April to work at CBRE. Now having been with the company for just about one month, I can say I am loving it. Hybrid work schedule, great office, coworkers who are pushing me to strive for more...
Introduced to future business and development partner
If you know me, you know I am passionate about sustainable real estate (see Built to Zero). My senior year of college, I wrote a thesis on building out a net-zero PUD... well a few weeks back, I was introduced to an architect with the same vision. Excited to have made the acquaintance and even more excited to see how we will be working together in the months and years to come.
Trip + Travel
Very lucky to have locked in some great ticket prices before the world went nuts... ended up having a very successful ESG investing conference in Lugano (sorry Elon Musk). Also, got to spend time with my cousin as he makes his transition into study abroad in France.
Literature
So the last book I had teased writing a summary for, I lied. Turns out Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals is the opposite of time management - it's actually more like an individual's rant on why he thinks time management is a waste of time in and of itself. I personally found the book to be a little depressing, wouldn't personally recommend it, but if it sounds up your alley, more power to you.
What I am reading now is quite the contrary, The Happiness Advantage is a great book with thorough research around different habits individuals can incorporate into their life in order to increase general happiness and thereby their productivity and success. Yes, it sounds hoity-toity, but the book is actually quite an interesting read... should have an update for you soon. Thank you Montana for
If you wanna read the summary for the last book I read, Bluefishing, click here, or to read summaries of other books I've read, check my Book Summaries tab.
Struggles
Obviously keeping up with this and posting. I did finally get around to the website facelift (let me know what you think - I'm sure there are still a few kinks, so please let me know when you find them...)
Shoutouts
Colin & Neusleep - Congrats on your first round of funding!! So exciting to watch you guys take this idea off the ground... I'm sure there are millions to come in the pipeline. LFG!
Junto - I'm so excited to be working with you all. things are definitely still in nascent stages, but now that we have the entire crew and things are beginning to settle down, I can't wait to get to work!
Graduates - Congratulations, your years of hard work have finally culminated in an official degree... now it's tie to get out there and use it! Looking forward to what all the future has in store.
Closing Thoughts
Definitely a different attitude since having sent my last update, just wanted to justify the thought process behind that.
1. Macro economics
As you are well aware, there is now a full fledged war in Eastern Europe. Also, we're seeing the fed increases rates at an unprecedented rate (pun). Bottled up in the two of those is general uncertainty, which leads me to my basis in being reluctant to invest further in any market. Granted, you can't time anything, so the generally accepted strategy in times like these is to layer on investment (meaning every so often, allocate a portion of your desired total investment into the given asset). This is somewhat possible with startup ideas (the largest investment is the time you allocate). But unfortunately, the asset class in which I am most interested is a little more difficult to "layer," you can't realistically by portions of a singular property over time...
2. New job
With the new employment, I'm trying to focus in a little more on generating some new business there as to stabilize myself before I take more time to evaluate other opportunities.
What’s Next
Don't worry, I'll definitely post again July 1 with more updates...
Stryker Lewis
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