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A Pricing Conundrum
February 5, 2023

When Capital Good Fund launched the DoubleGreen Solar loan, in Fall 2021, the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) was near-zero, and we priced the product accordingly: by charging borrowers an APR of 3.099% – 4.99%, we could provide a return of […]

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I Fear Nothing More Than Wasting Time
January 31, 2023

I’ll be brief, for we are both busy
and the calendar Gods have laid waste to
that idyllic peace which, if we’re honest,
is as foreign to our forebears as to us.

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You Tell a Story to Prove We’re Doomed
January 29, 2023

But the thing
about the apologue
of the frog in boiling water
is that it’s scientifically false

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Self-Care
January 29, 2023

“Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data.” – Shoshana Zuboff If no one but me profits from this walk in the woods, what does it say that I’m no good at making […]

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A First-Class Story
January 21, 2023

I’m presently with my family in Oahu, Hawaii, to celebrate my dad’s 80th birthday. In the spirit of this being a big blowout celebration, my dad upgraded us to first-class for the five-hour flight here from Los Angeles. At first, […]

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Residential Clean Lending’s Dirty Secret
January 15, 2023

In August of 2021, just as Capital Good Fund was launching our solar lending pilot, I wrote an article, Say It Ain’t So, Solar Lenders!, about some unsavory practices in the industry. Since then, several things of note have happened. First, Capital […]

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Puzzle
January 14, 2023

The rain falls like puzzle pieces
dumped from a satin bag in the
sky. Excited, my son turns each

droplet in his hands…

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The Spirit of the Law vs the Letter of the Law: After Reading ‘The Family-Separation Files’ About the Trump Administration’s Zero-Tolerance Immigration Policy
January 2, 2023

Terns carry no pass- port, respect no borders, write long-titled haiku – Read The Family-Separation Files here

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Life: A Villanelle
January 2, 2023

I play the saddest song I can find,
for it is sadness that keeps me alive
though I am weak and oft unkind.

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In Praise of the Two Jehovah’s Witnesses at the Camarillo Train Station
December 26, 2022

I am no less a propagandist than you. I understand the impulse to
spend hours at a sleepy train station for the chance to…

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