About/Contact

Contact me: Have a comment, tip, or just want to get in touch? Email me at feedback–at–jacobgrier.com. I’m also available on Twitter and Facebook, though on the latter I only accept requests from people I know personally.

Who I am: When I was in college I spent all my time throwing frisbees and hanging out in coffee shops, believing that afterward I would happily move to Washington, DC and work in a think tank. After graduation I did come to DC but realized very quickly that I was happier in coffee shops. I dropped out of the policy world and spent several years in the espresso-obsessed barista subculture. Three years later I was once again working in a think tank. That lasted only a year before I said goodbye to all that, put my stuff in storage, loaded up my car, and drove west. Now I live in Portland, OR, working as a writer and bartender and getting to know a new part of the country.

If the key to having a successful weblog is focusing on a specific field of expertise, this site is doomed to failure. Liquidity Preference is unapologetically eclectic. A few of the topics I often discuss here are cocktails, coffee, the growing nanny state, libertarianism, economics, magic, useful internet tools, and weird sea creatures.

I launched the first version of the site in May of 2003, back before blogs became popular and before I even knew what a weblog was. At the time blogging seemed hopelessly narcissistic, so I came up with three editorial rules for the site. Blogging is a lot more common now, but I still think they hold up pretty well:

Guide to Good Blogging

Rule #1: Be meaningful.

Rule #2: If meaning is elusive, be amusing.

Rule #3: If meaning and amusement are both out of reach, be brief.

So check the blog every now and then, and I’ll aspire to be occasionally meaningful, more frequently amusing, and mercifully brief the rest of the time.

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