Gary Carmell
Heather and I had the great pleasure of seeing some incredible tennis at Indian Wells We saw 12 matches, including the best match of all, Djokovic versus Draper, which had what the announcers categorized as one of the best points they have ever seen It was an epic 26 shot rally with incredible,
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Gary Carmell
How Energy, Geopolitics, and Inflation Are Triggering a Global Market Chain Reaction
Financial markets have a long history of overreacting to geopolitical headlines and then quietly moving on. This time feels different. The recent surge in energy prices following events in Iran—coming on the heels of U.S.
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Gary Carmell
The last few weeks have been brutal for software stocks. Words like carnage, panic, and even “SaaSpocalypse” have crept into investor vocabulary as shares of companies long viewed as durable compounders—Salesforce,
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Gary Carmell
The financial narrative has evolved from a simple “cooling economy” story into a complex tug-of-war between recessionary signals and surprising pockets of resilience. While markets continue to price in future rate cuts, recent data highlights significant cross-currents that make the Federal Reserve’s path forward increasingly uncertain.
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Gary Carmell
Five Years, One Heart, and the Quiet Power of Momentum
February 9th marked the fifth anniversary of my heart surgery to repair a damaged mitral valve. It’s a date I don’t celebrate with fanfare, but I do honor it with reflection.
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Gary Carmell
While watching the Australian Open, a commercial featuring Roger Federer flashed across the screen. In it, he said something that stopped me mid‑scroll:
“Be free in your head, be free in your shots, go for it.
The brave will be rewarded here.”
It was classic Federer — elegant,
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Gary Carmell
Five‑Set Tennis, Five‑Set Markets: Lessons from NMHC and Melbourne
For more than 25 years, the National Multi-Housing Council meeting has been one of my annual rituals—a place to take the pulse of the apartment market by listening to smart people, absorbing the mood of owners,
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Gary Carmell
Living Well, Dying Well: Lessons from Bob Weir and the Numbers We Leave Behind
When Bob Weir passed away at 78, I found myself doing something that has become a ritual whenever someone central to my life leaves us: I looked at the numbers.
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Gary Carmell
I wasn’t in the most elevated of moods when I learned Bob Weir had passed away. I had just come off the tennis court after losing a mixed doubles tournament match — one of those aggravating defeats where the mind lingers on a few points you should have put away and how,
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Gary Carmell
I ended last week’s blog stating that I would focus on discussing purpose from a personal standpoint. Over the last few months, I have been interacting with Copilot about this topic and other personal and philosophical queries. One of the key concepts that has emerged from those interactions is how central human flourishing is to how I live my life.
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