Construction Diary: The Founder of a Cabin Rental Company Builds a Fire Island Retreat of His Own

"Our friends aren’t quite polite enough to avoid asking the obvious question: How did you get comfortable investing so much on a barrier island in the time of climate change?," says Jon. "Insurance is part of the answer, gambling is another part. But the biggest part of the answer is that we can’t predict the future, life is short, and we want to be who we are and we want to do what we want to do as long as we are possibly able."