Tag: personal-finance
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3 Minute Friday: Landmines, Fishbowls, and Bicycles
TGIF everyone, another work week down. I’ve been a busy little bee this week with work and personal projects. Here are some of the things that I’ve been thinking about: Landmines Your day job is like a minefield, you never know when you’ll step on a landmine. My prediction: We’re in a recession. This might…
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The Reason You Are Broke: It’s Not A Money Problem
I had a friend, Sarah, tell me how she was sick of living paycheck to paycheck and not able to save money. Of course, this is an average thing for most Americans today, as 66% of the population struggle to make ends meet. I would have felt sorry for her, if she didn’t just get…
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July Monthly Review: Lessons in Focus and Simplicity
July has been a hot and humid month here in New England, but it has been full of many wonderful ideas, to many in fact. I started this blog on July 1st (originally on a free WordPress account), I set a goal to read one book a week for the rest of the year, and…
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What Minimalism Can Teach Us About Finance: A Simple Path to Wealth
If you saw my last post, you’ll know how minimalism can increase your productivity, but did you know it can also increase your wealth? Many people believe that investing in the stock market is a complicated task only the professionals can do, but it can actually be extremely simple. The book, The Simple Path to…
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Be A Millionaire Today!
I promise this isn’t one of those get rich quick schemes. I am not telling you to invest in GameStop or Bitcoin, and I am not trying to sell you my course on how to house hack your way into more debt than anyone should be able to stomach. I am here to tell you…
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How to Finance Your Adventure and Your Life
Many young men die at age 25, but are not buried until they are 75 – Often attributed to Benjamin Franklin Ever Wonder How to Save Up for a Big Quest? Ever since I got back from the Appalachian Trail in 2022, I’ve been thinking about how to get back out there. After graduating college…
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Why the Concept of Retirement is Wrong
I was having a conversation with a friend recently and he made the point that our society was very smart to realize that at age 60-65 people retire because they are ready for a slower life (he is around this age himself). He is a very intelligent guy, with a PhD in chemical engineering, and…
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Do You Actually Want all of Your Problems to be Solved?
My original idea for this post was to look 5-10 years ahead and talk about where I hoped to be and live in a happy, fantasy future for a few minutes, which often makes me feel good and hopeful about my current situation, but as I reread The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau, one…
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Fuck the Joneses! Why would I want to keep up with them?
The Joneses are broke, have debt over their heads, and are going to get divorced (statistically*), why would I want to be like them? Good question, I don’t. I don’t want to live in a suburb house with a payment so large I can barely afford it. I don’t need that new Ford Bronco or…