Dear family and friends,
As we have in prior years, we are sending this end-of-year letter instead of mailing holiday cards. Instead, we’ve made a large donation in your honor to the Anti-Defamation League (unfortunately antisemitism continues to be on the rise). If you haven’t read my newest friend Noa Tishby’s book on Israel, it is a real treasure. It isn’t just about Israel (although that would be enough given its title and importance), it is also about Western values and the value of democracy itself.
2022 was an incredible year in so many ways but it was also a rollercoaster (if you let it be). From a market that was at a peak at the end of 2021 to rising inflation, a rising Fed funds rate to try to combat it, the shocking Russian attack of Ukraine, but also with many truly amazing technological breakthroughs, including at data.world, and beautiful moments of humanity (including Ukraine’s improbably successful resistance) - wow, what a year it was!