A long time ago, back when I still lived in the Bay Area and before I met Charr, I had a most unusual housemate at the place where I was living. He…
Category: Money & Investing
Day 319: Don’t Just Do Something… Sit There! (Part 2)
Today my phone, with it’s knowledge of my online reading habits, suggested that I read this article, which is about buy and hold investing. Specifically, the author makes the point of how…
Day 317: My Money Management Fetish Revisited
So back on Day 18 of my 365 Day Blogging Project, I wrote about how well I take to managing our money. It started way back in my days of bachelorhood, when…
Day 313: What’s Your Risk Tolerance? (Part 3/Survey Says…)
Okay, so I decided to keep this on the topic of Investing, more specifically on the topic of asset allocation, more specifically on the topic MY asset allocation… as this is about…
Day 312: What’s Your Risk Tolerance? (Part 2/Personal Update)
So yesterday I wrote about the topic of risk tolerance and asset allocation. This topic is extremely important for anyone who is investing. As they say, with risk comes reward, but also…
Day 311: What’s Your Risk Tolerance?
So, as you may recall, a little over ten years ago the world went through this little experience we commonly refer to as “The Financial Crisis.” It was also called “The Great…
Day 308: It Has to Pass the Satisfaction Test
The wisdom of alignment has been extraordinarily useful for me in recent months. I am gaining the ability to check, at any moment, whether my thoughts are moving me in a direction…
Day 307: Music Career Confessional
So for many years I had these ideas of what I thought my music career would (or should) be. Here’s a basic idea: writing, recording, and performing my music, selling it, marketing…
Day 304: Don’t just do something… sit there!
Several years ago, my wife got me a subscription to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Generally, I enjoy flipping through it, as everything in the magazine tends to be about managing one’s money…
Day 302: Recency Bias and the Silliness of Video Game Baseball Predictions
So I have this new baseball game I’ve been playing the last few weeks on my phone. Today, I was at the cafe playing the game as a break from writing, when…