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What I Trade

I believe in barter economies. Here's what I offer in exchange for your skills, time, or goods.

Food & Hospitality

Homemade Ice Cream Custom flavor of your choice, delivered. Specify preferences (fruit-forward, nutty, chocolate-based) and dietary restrictions.

In-Home Meal Service I come to your house and cook a meal for N people. You provide ingredients (or I source them), I handle prep and cooking (cleanup can be negotiated). Great for dinner parties where you want to host but not cook.

Meal Prep Batch Cooking I cook large batches you can freeze for the week. Specify dietary needs, portion sizes, and preferences.

Climbing Session + Coaching Gym session where I teach technique, give beta on problems, help you improve footwork and body positioning.

Technical Services

Website Development I build you a modern website (similar to this one). This entire website I spun up in ~6 hours today, more complex ones negotiable. TypeScript, Next.js, professional standards.

Knowledge & Consulting

Investment/Finance Primer I walk you through setting up a brokerage account, explain index funds, help you build a simple portfolio, push you to invest in the US economy as a whole (low-fee ETFs, long-term holding).

Personal Finance Deep Dive Portfolio allocation, retirement account setup, general financial hygiene, discussion of goals.

NYC Community Board Tutorial How to engage with local government, what community boards actually do, how to make your voice heard on local issues.

Systems Thinking Chat How to analyze complex systems, identify leverage points, design for second-order effects. Applied to your specific problem (business, community, personal). This will look like a focused conversation.

Community & Social

Host a Dinner at My Place I cook for a group (you can bring +1s), communal-style dining, conversation-focused. Great way to meet interesting people in my network.

Facilitate a Group Discussion I run a structured discussion/workshop on a topic of your choice (community building, decision-making, whatever).

Introductions to Interesting People I connect you with 3 people from my network based on your interests/goals. Quality over quantity.

Other

Accountability Partnership Regular check-ins (weekly or biweekly) where I push you to follow through on commitments. Works for fitness, projects, habits, anything. Can also come up with and enforce a carrot/stick regime.

What I'm Looking For

I'm interested in trading for:

  • Services I use regularly: Massage, personal training, therapy/coaching, etc
  • Experiences: Unique is good, connections to friends or yourself, etc
  • Time: Make art? Help organize our house
  • Knowledge: Teach me something I don't know (cooking techniques, new software, historical deep dives)
  • Barter chain: You don't have something I need, but you know someone who does
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