Published in June 30th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I see bloggers falling into three categories.
Pro-bloggers are like professors in that they are they bearers of the current culture. In particular they carry the knowledge that does not get written down in books and they try to impart [...]
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Published in April 15th, 2008
Mrs Micah asked what’s wrong with being middle class focusing on not working enjoyable but not too stressful jobs and still having the time and money to live comfortably. Lazyman talked about the upper limit of trading time for money and made some comments about the poor choice of working overtime just to buy unsatisfying [...]
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Published in April 3rd, 2008
As mentioned in last Saturday’s roundup, I had some ideas regarding the future last week, specifically how to spend retirement and how to live. I’m the type that sees life itself as an adventure. I left my home country almost 10 years to go to grad school in another country. When I finished, I left [...]
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Published in March 26th, 2008
I have a confession to make. I write a personal finance blog, but I rarely read other personal finance blogs. There is a reason for that. Here is the reason. I find that once anyone get actively involved in any community, they will start to (subconsciously) adopt the thinking modes of the community almost like [...]
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Published in March 25th, 2008
I had today (Monday) off. Last week I noticed that Monday was marked as “spring holiday” on the calendar. It took me a few moments to figure out that this probably meant Easter. Ah, the separation of church and state when taken to the point of confusion.
Thus today was spent much like I imagine retirement [...]
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Published in March 18th, 2008
Coming from the mindset of an earlier post about passion, I am speaking of the values that optimizes the successful triad of health, wealth, and wisdom (all part of financial independence) rather than more typical choice of comfortable or exciting escapism (all part of the rat race?) which to me suggests a lack of fulfillment [...]
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Published in February 22nd, 2008
I just rediscovered the simple living network thanks to a blog by Fred Ecks(*). As far as I have been able to understand he decided to quit his job as a programmer at age 35 and adopt a simple lifestyle. He now spends time renovating a sail boat and doing ultra-marathons.
Sounds eerily familiar. Here’s [...]
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Published in January 25th, 2008
One popular psychological strategy is to set small goals or start slowly. This strategy usually fails from the lack of meaningful progress despite having achieved several small goals(*). There is a good reason for this. The S-curve or logistic function is a useful model for understanding why this strategy rarely brings the intended results.
DW was [...]
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Published in January 12th, 2008
Get a student loan. Get a college education. Get a mortgage and become a home owner. Have a career. Put 15% of your income in a 401k/IRA for 35 years. Plan to retire at 60… any of this sound familiar?
That’s because it is the standard recipe for a “successful” life in middle class America. It [...]
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Published in January 9th, 2008
This week we have touched on the subject of how to manage finances when bringing on a minimum wage. The Great Money Challenge wrote about how to live on a minimum wage and I wrote about how to get wealthy on a minimum wage. I think the consensus around here is that while it is [...]
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