Stuart Miller

When I was on the West Coast... The people who worked for us were getting confused. This is no longer coherent. So I decided, you know what? At the highest level, what I'm really good at is finding somebody who's better than I am at doing a thing. And I realized Adam's better at running East Rock than I am. I'm not that great a manager of people I love. Coaching people.

When I was on the West Coast... The people who worked for us were getting confused. This is no longer coherent. So I decided, you know what? At the highest level, what I'm really good at is finding somebody who's better than I am at doing a thing. And I realized Adam's better at running East Rock than I am. I'm not that great a manager of people I love. Coaching people.

I love having a sense of abundance. I love setting people free. I'm not that good a manager of people. If anything, not being that good a manager of people is in part why I have to be so good at hiring because I don't have the attention span or the desire to stay in their business if they're not doing the thing they should do.

I love having a sense of abundance. I love setting people free. I'm not that good a manager of people. If anything, not being that good a manager of people is in part why I have to be so good at hiring because I don't have the attention span or the desire to stay in their business if they're not doing the thing they should do.

And so I decided, you know what, I found somebody who's better than I am at running East Rock and he should take it and make it his own and turn it into the next era. And I always thought that there's this concept of third culture kid, which I learned about from a.

And so I decided, you know what, I found somebody who's better than I am at running East Rock and he should take it and make it his own and turn it into the next era. And I always thought that there's this concept of third culture kid, which I learned about from a.

Israeli friend of mine who grew up in Puerto Rico and his Indian girlfriend said, you're a third culture kid, which is such a great mix. I guess the concept is it's when you grow up in a place that's not your family's home culture. A lot of military brats are like this and a lot of immigrants are like this, where you never quite feel like somewhere's home.

Israeli friend of mine who grew up in Puerto Rico and his Indian girlfriend said, you're a third culture kid, which is such a great mix. I guess the concept is it's when you grow up in a place that's not your family's home culture. A lot of military brats are like this and a lot of immigrants are like this, where you never quite feel like somewhere's home.

And I had grown up, my parents were hippies, started a nonprofit in Kentucky. And I grew up in Kentucky and And I was homeschooled, and we were so different from everybody else. It was like I was growing up in a foreign country. And in retrospect, it felt incoherent to me. I had no alternative basis other than the fact that we seemed very different.

And I had grown up, my parents were hippies, started a nonprofit in Kentucky. And I grew up in Kentucky and And I was homeschooled, and we were so different from everybody else. It was like I was growing up in a foreign country. And in retrospect, it felt incoherent to me. I had no alternative basis other than the fact that we seemed very different.

I moved to New Hampshire when I was 14, and that immediately felt much more coherent. My dad had grown up in Boston. My mom grew up in Santa Barbara and on the West Coast. And when we moved in January 2020 to Santa Barbara, And it has felt like home in a way that I thought I was a third culture kid. One of the things about third culture kids is that nowhere ever feels like home.

I moved to New Hampshire when I was 14, and that immediately felt much more coherent. My dad had grown up in Boston. My mom grew up in Santa Barbara and on the West Coast. And when we moved in January 2020 to Santa Barbara, And it has felt like home in a way that I thought I was a third culture kid. One of the things about third culture kids is that nowhere ever feels like home.

They always feel like an outsider. They always feel like they're visitors. And so one way I made the decision was this feels like home. I don't want to leave. And whatever I do next, I want to use this as the base and travel from here. And so that is ultimately how I made the decision. And it feels like it's worn well. I miss the team. I miss the clients.

They always feel like an outsider. They always feel like they're visitors. And so one way I made the decision was this feels like home. I don't want to leave. And whatever I do next, I want to use this as the base and travel from here. And so that is ultimately how I made the decision. And it feels like it's worn well. I miss the team. I miss the clients.

I miss being in New York and the flow of it. But then I almost feel slightly smug saying this out loud. But on a 100-point scale, my life satisfaction is like a 98 or 99. I'm saying this in that spirit of recognizing how fragile it is, how quickly it could change.

I miss being in New York and the flow of it. But then I almost feel slightly smug saying this out loud. But on a 100-point scale, my life satisfaction is like a 98 or 99. I'm saying this in that spirit of recognizing how fragile it is, how quickly it could change.

I had heard Danny Meyer say on maybe a podcast with Tim that there are some spaces, restaurant spaces, potential restaurant spaces, that if you gave them to him for free, he wouldn't start a restaurant there. That totally clicked because I'd been keeping an eye out kind of opportunistically in Santa Barbara and specifically in Montecito for a restaurant spot.

I had heard Danny Meyer say on maybe a podcast with Tim that there are some spaces, restaurant spaces, potential restaurant spaces, that if you gave them to him for free, he wouldn't start a restaurant there. That totally clicked because I'd been keeping an eye out kind of opportunistically in Santa Barbara and specifically in Montecito for a restaurant spot.

And it constantly felt like I was forcing it. And so a spot came up that has such good feng shui. It's like your car kind of wants to go there. It's the center of this particular part of town. And I instantly knew, oh, if that were available, I would be drawn to go there myself all the time.

And it constantly felt like I was forcing it. And so a spot came up that has such good feng shui. It's like your car kind of wants to go there. It's the center of this particular part of town. And I instantly knew, oh, if that were available, I would be drawn to go there myself all the time.