One of my all-time favourite podcast names is “Death, Sex, Money”. Three words. Three highly emotive topics. Three topics that many people find hard to talk about. Talk about clear, concise, and effective. Money is highly emotional. Money...
Consider this article a personal allegory. At a superficial level, it’s about my desire to own a Porsche Cayman. At a deeper level, it’s about having a clear-eyed perspective in relation to your goals....
(Technically, this article should be titled “How WE money” because everything I do, I do it with my wife.) One of the things I pride myself on is providing financial advice that follows the...
I’m not the most socially skilled person in the world. But I’m a LOT better than I used to be. Although there are some situations where I’m still not good, there are some social...
Ethics is interesting The topics of ethics and morality, in the abstract, elicit eye-rolls in many people. But those same topics often provoke the most interesting and engaging conversations with these same people. Because...
I love books that swing for the fences. They almost always include things I disagree with. And they’re not the sort of books that will average 5 stars on Amazon. That’s how I’d describe...
(File under: Some terrible financial decisions can be great life decisions, and vice versa.) A few months ago, I took my family on a road trip around the South Island. We stayed in various...
This week I gave a 30-minute presentation to a group of engineers. I talked about investing and insurance, while emphasising the importance of making financial and lifestyle decisions that are in line with YOUR...
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not. – Kurt Vonnegut When I first heard the phrase “copy and paste personality”,...
(Not directly related to money. But related to the greatest form of riches. I wrote this article several years ago but didn’t have a forum for publishing it. Thanks to school holidays I don’t...