Lituchy's Life

For my second book I decided to read American Like Me by America Ferrera (along with 32 other individual authors). So far this book is much different than any other book I've read. Each story told is slightly different from the next based on the authors personal experiences, yet they all show very similar themes. Being different and not fitting in is something that a lot of these stories have in common. It's very interesting to see how such big celebrities have struggled at times with their own identity in the US. My favorite story that I've read is Jeremy Lin's. Being a huge sports fan, it's cool to see into a players childhood and experience growing up trying to fit in. Jeremy talks about how he was the only Asian kid on any of his basketball teams, and was often times the only non-white kid playing. He was always seen as the weak little Asian kid who didn't belong on a basketball court. He constantly fought with himself over his identity, as he got in his h...

TO: Clark Hansen, CEO, Anima Mundi Development Partners  FROM: Gavin Lituchy, Research & Development Associate DATE: October 15 th , 2019  SUBJECT: Investment Opportunity: Innocent Drinks Earlier this month you asked me to recommend a business worthy of our investment here at AMDP. After doing research on several companies, I have come across Innocent Drinks, a smoothie and juice company based in London. Not only is Innocent committed to doing business in a socially responsible, environmentally sustainable, and profitable manner, but it’s also at the forefront of innovation. As Innocent Drinks continues to grow, I’d highly recommend that AMDP invests in this company before it’s too late. Below I’ll describe how Innocent meets our standards, who they are as a sustainable company, and why their approach towards innovation is focused on helping society.  AMDP Standards Triple Bottom Line The Triple Bottom Line is a framework that measures a comp...

This blog post is the random post so I'm going to dedicated it to things randomly on my mind. So welcome aboard and let's see where this ship takes us. First thing that has popped into my mind is what makes us happy? Even better question is what's happiness? We all know when we're happy or not, but it's hard to describe what the feeling is. You could probably easily recall the last time that you were really angry, upset, or stressed, but it isn't as easy to pinpoint the last time you were really really happy. Was it when I that burrito earlier today? Was it after I finished my midterm? Or was it when I got to return home for the summer? I honestly don't know. I started to realize that the older I got the more complex everything around me became. Subsequently, my happiness has also become more complex. So what does make me happy? Being with friends, having nothing on my plate, watching sports, playing guitar, this list goes on for a while. Interesting, very i...

After completing "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming," I must say that I absolutely loved reading this book. Mike Brown does such a good job of making what would normally be very complex scientific language into extremely relatable and easy to read english. He mixes in stories of his wife and his daughter with his work life and tedious process of trying to find another planet. The book begins with him describing the night sky and how he fell in love with it. His journey to become an astronomer started at a very young age as he grew up in a small rocket city in Alabama. After going to Cal Berkeley and eventually moving to Pasadena to work at Cal Tech as a full-time astronomer, he begins working with a series of telescopes in the area. At the time he was living in a small cabin at the top of a mountain without plumbing or much electricity not to far from his work. One late night while he's sitting in the control room of the telescope center, he decides to make a ...