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Last month, I became buried in a multi-day Google binge; combing the web for things like “CECL Prep”, “CECL Requirements”, and “CECL Implementation”. I finally understand the Socratic Paradox. A few thousand years ago, during a conversation with some guy in the neighborhood, Socrates concluded that neither of the men knew anything (they were talking

A couple of months before we launched, I began calling on some colleagues in the bank software sector to try to drum up some new partnerships.  My first call was to a friend who made a pretty healthy living selling an outdated call report analysis tool (something he built around 10-15 years ago). It seemed

In the last few months, I’ve come across about a dozen Commercial Real Estate articles with panic-inducing headlines. If I understand the consensus, it seems we’re just minutes away from global calamity and CRE is “the next big short” (as one Forbes article puts it). I’m equal parts optimist and skeptic, so I had to