Being a parent is a huge responsibility.We want the best for our children. When they leave the nest, most of us want to have some comfort knowing that they’re well-equipped ...
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I love consuming media. I love reading, watching, and listening – for entertainment and education. We live in a golden age of media, thanks to the internet. At the touch ...
TLDR: High-level thoughts. Less relevant to any specific decision, but more about the lenses through which we see the world, which can in turn inform our decisions.In the last year ...
In this article, I reflect on my personal situation. However, I hope my candid thoughts prompt you to reflect on your own situation.For the next couple of months at least, ...
I recently wrote about taking articles from this blog and collating them into a series of books. Ostensibly, the books above are short works of non-fiction. With the exception of Luck, however, ...
Most of us want to feel financially secure. How we feel about our financial situation is highly personal. Quite often I speak with people who are worth millions of dollars ...
I’m sharing a lot about my own situation for illustrative purposes. Read this article and think about how the key messages relate to your own circumstances. Lately, I’ve been ...
The idea that there is one specific way to invest, or to manage your financial affairs, is kind of weird. This might seem like I’m contradicting myself, since when I ...
My favourite articles are those that stay with me, many years after reading. One of these articles, from 2015, is Frank Bruni writing about “The Myth of Quality Time” in ...
Your balance sheet provides a simplified view of assets you own which you can sell relatively easily, and which you can put a relatively stable value on. It omits some ...
Lately, I’ve been joking that I often feel more like a biographer than a financial planner. I now wonder whether that’s really a joke, or actually the truth. The reason ...
In the world of finance, people love to talk about the hedonic treadmill. Reach a certain milestone – a level of income or wealth, a purchase you’ve had your heart ...
(TLDR: For being “smart”, I can be really dumb sometimes. This article constitutes a major insight for me, but for many people the response will be: “DUH!”) Lots of things ...
This is my car: It’s a 2005 Subaru Legacy. If I sold it today, I’d be lucky to get $6,000. (It’s the 3-litre version with leather etc.) This is my ...
In honour of the Day of the Dead (2 November) – a moving excerpt about death: “In [the Mexican] tradition… people die three deaths. The first is when our bodies ...