Yu-Jiang Tham: Discount Pomeranian Daddy, Black V-Neck Aficionado, Autodidact, OCD about Personal Finance

In this episode, I interview my pal Yu-Jiang. I've known him for about 10 years, back from when we were both living in SF. We've both since moved on - him to Seattle, and me abroad since 2016.

What fascinates me about him is that he is the consummate tech guy, with UCLA, Apple, and Snapchat. You'd expect his life to be essentially a straight line to the purgatory of tech middle management and unrealized stock options, but somehow he's veered from that path.

He took a job selling study guides door-to-door in Maryland the summer after his freshman year of college. He quit his cushy job at Apple to travel the world for 8 months. He's a tinkerer and life optimizer. He recently bought 16 of the same t-shirt. He bought a pomeranian on discount. He manually tracks every single dollar he spends.

Most of those things I can highly relate to.

In this episode, we talk about his absolute unit of a pomeranian and how it has brought his family together, the wealth disparity in Asia, what he does from 7-9am every single day, and why Khao San Road represents failure for both of us.