About me
Updated December 22, 2025
I have a lot to be grateful for. Amazing family and friends. I’m healthy. I enjoy my job. And then there’s my dog Brutus. He is my favorite.
In June 2025, I moved back to my hometown, Traverse City, MI, from Denver, CO. I quit my engineering job to work at the family tea business and farm.
In January 2022, I decided to seriously pursue day trading as a career. “I will succeed or die trying. I will never quit, no matter what.” Since then, I’ve been working tirelessly. It has been a long journey. Lots of stress, horror stories of losing money, late nights studying, but I never quit.
I also write about philosophy and personal insights. On Christmas Day 2018, I survived a rollover car accident. I was already wrestling with existential questions, and that near death experience, among some other unfortunate events I won’t mention here plunged me into a dark place. The following 5 month period was the most difficult of my life. But by the end of it, I emerged a wiser, stronger, and more grounded person, with a deeper sense of gratitude and appreciation for the gift that life is. This is what set me on my path of wanting to learn the lessons from History’s greatest thinkers like Viktor Frankl, Dostoyevsky, Aristotle, The Stoics, and so on.
Thank you for being here.
My email is petemacke11@gmail.com if you’d ever like to chat.
Much love,
-Peter
Peter Macke 