Money

The Quick & Easy Way to Screw Up Your Kid’s Financial Health

Leaning into the Discomfort

I had something very uncomfortable happen to me on Monday.

I had been stressing, just a little, about our cel phone bill. I hadn’t really looked at it recently, wasn’t exactly sure if last month was past-due or not, and knew that it was going feel like…

Practicing Slack

There’s another key concept from the Scarcity book I’m listening to that is the second “game changer” in terms of how I look at the overall concept of meeting needs. It’s the idea of slack.

The first thing to realize is that this is nothing to do with the term “slacker”…

A Raw Attempt at Money Management

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The Logical Fallacy of the Futility of Passion

I am not a tremendously logical man. I wish I was; it’s probably part of why statistics thrill me so much. It’s taken me a while, but there was always something about the whole If you follow your passion, you’re very unlikely to be happy or…

“wan­der­ers, dream­ers, and lovers”

I hate to break it to you, but I haven’t got it figured out. I know you come to this blog to read pearls of wisdom to help you find your way to happiness and contentedness and better, whiter, teeth or at least wider smiles, but I’m afraid there’s very little of…

How to Sleep Better, or, The Economics of Blogging

I mentioned in a past post that I really need to work on my practice of sleeping.

Later I got a very friendly email from a bloke named Wally, telling me that he had read the article, liked it, and thought that you…