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Day 302: Recency Bias and the Silliness of Video Game Baseball Predictions

Posted on June 1, 2019

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…

Day 301: Warren Buffett’s “Bathtub Memory”

Posted on May 31, 2019

I am currently working through an excellent biography of Warren Buffet: “The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life,” by Alice Schroeder. This book is long–over 800 pages–yet is well-written and…

Day 292: A Case for Financial Responsibility

Posted on May 22, 2019

Since the spring of 2015, I have been obsessed with managing our finances. The ultimate objective is probably “Financial Freedom,” which is commonly defined as earning enough passive income to live off…

Day 261: “Liar’s Poker,” or Michael Lewis’ sojourn into Wall Street hell

Posted on April 21, 2019

I just finished reading Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street. If you have seen any of the following movies–The Big Short, The Blind Side, or Moneyball— well,…

Day 245: Stop Effort-ing, and Start Enjoying

Posted on April 5, 2019

Well, folks, we’ve about come to the moment of truth. Yes, I’m talking about Tax Day, which is right around the corner… Hopefully you, as I do, look forward to this with…

Day 238: My Money Confession

Posted on March 29, 2019

First, a relevant Abraham-Hicks quote: The reason you have not already gotten what you desire is because you are holding yourself in a vibrational holding pattern that does not match the vibration…

Day 233: How to Make a Subject Feel Good?

Posted on March 24, 2019

Abraham-Hicks is an awesome Law of Attraction teacher. I quote or refer to them often. One idea that I have continually heard from Abraham-Hicks has to do with the power of focusing…

Day 222: Your Worth is Immeasurable

Posted on March 13, 2019

I’ve sometimes had a rocky relationship with numbers. In school I was terrified of getting bad grades, which are basically numbers (after all, an “A” represents 100%, “B” represents 90%, and so…

Day 212: Mustard seed, anyone?

Posted on March 3, 2019

According to what I’ve been told, the Good Book (Yeah, you know the one I’m talking about… not Harry Potter!) says that “If you but have the faith of a mustard seed,…

Day 181: Sometimes I take a long time to think things through

Posted on January 31, 2019

I don’t know how you are, but sometimes I take a long time to think things through. Especially when it comes to daily situations, and business situations or important situations involving other…

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