Now 37, with short-cropped salt-and-pepper hair, he spends at least four uninterrupted hours with his wife and daughter daily, and meditates twice. He reads about psychology, philosophy and wellness, with Soren Kierkegaard and Joseph Campbell among his favorite authors; when he listens to audiobooks, he does so at 2.5 speed.
His own recent writings touched on topics from the practice required to achieve inner peace to what he described as “finding joy in Uncomfortable Introspection.” He preaches about his realization that pursuing passions and having a day job in finance don’t have to be mutually exclusive. He is slightly obsessed with a dread of death, and what a person can learn from that.
In the meantime, he has a more mundane concern, which is what he’s going to do for his next act. Hy’s got a lot of things figured out, but he acknowledges at some point he’ll have to make money again, by somehow monetizing RadReads, starting a business or getting a job. He’s still trying to reconcile “the number."
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