I’ve been playing cards, especially poker, since I was a kid. For years I avoided Hold’em because it didn’t seem like “real poker” to me. I’ve always played classic five card stud or draw and seven card stud. We would “spice it up” with various permutations and…

Twitter has been a controversial (and seemingly messed up) company and hence a volatile stock. I recently took a long position in $TWTR. I still think the company faces many challenges and seems to be handicapped in terms of leadership and management but still… Twitter is a thing.

I’ve been managing my own money for decades and tend towards a “swing for the fences” approach. That’s influenced by my background in technology which tends to work that way. A successful company that emerges into the commercial technology space can offer 5–10x returns…

We like to license content and be 100% fair in our use of material. So it’s natural that we signed up for a plan with Shutterstock ($SSTK). We signed up in 2015 and downloaded five images for a project. We picked a $29/month “plan with rollover” and didn’t think much more…

UPDATE: After I published this article I was surprised to learn that even active advisors don’t understand the availability, simplicity and power of automatic rebalancing. This is really important — if you save regularly, set up an allocation and then have it…