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Book Review: “Retire Early with Real Estate” by Chad Carson (2018)
Coach Chad Carson is an excellent person to follow. He has been in the real estate game for 10+ years and offers a wealth of resources on the topic on his site and podcast. His book, published by BiggerPockets, is a great foray into the world of real estate. It offers a high-level strategy including showcasing some of the steps and paths you can take to be on your real estate journey. Sprinkled in are a series of vignettes on some of the real estate investor community ranging from Paula Pant to Graham Stevens to some of the BiggerPockets crew (Gee, I wonder how). At a high level, the book…
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Four Reasons Quibi Is Doomed To Fail
Quibi, which rhymes with Libby, has been dunked on for a while. Launching in the midst of a pandemic in April 2020, the streaming site (which stands for “Quick Bites”) has not gotten off to a good start. I think the best way you can sum up its current standing is a baffling quote from CEO Meg Whitman on her favorite shows: The Vulture article, from journalist Benjamin Wallace, is a wonderful dive into the company and how it failed. Here I’ll outline some of the many reasons why it has failed to land and will not survive in the land of Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV, and…
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Book Review: “The Total Money Makeover” by Dave Ramsey (2009)
A look at Dave Ramsey's philosophy and book.
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What’s your wealth number?
A new article from Bloomberg gives a new index for your net worth. The article starts out by lamenting how the term “millionaire” has lost meaning with the wide range of net worth. So the team built their own wealth range from -2 to 10 (well 11, if you count the two richest people in the world) on an exponential rating system. The numbers go: The article enumerates this range. With my current wealth, I’m somewhere around a five to six. So…what does your number actually mean? The article doesn’t go into much detail, but I think it enumerates the level of difference between someone like Gates and your average…
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Is Delivery Worth The Price?
Is online shopping worth the cost?
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Do I have the right to be forgotten?
The internet is a sorting tool of information. It allows a quick search of individuals, but can easily distort or manipulate one’s viewpoint. I can feel Big Brother’s ever watchful eye as the vast amount of collectible information about me is synthesized through service providers, search engines and applications. How things are sorted reflects traffic paths. According to online ad network Chitika, the top listing on a Google search result will get 33% of search traffic. So what is popular gets sorted, but what happens if something is popular and you want it erased? Do I have the right to be forgotten? This right to be forgotten started with a…
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Book Review: “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi (2016)
Paul Kalanithi was on his way up in life. He was married, had attended Yale School of Medicine and was nearing the end of his residency at Stanford University as a neurosurgeon. Then, at age 36, he found out he had Stage IV lung cancer. What follows in the book is his examination of his life as he lives with this disease.
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying
This list comes from an Australian nurse named Bronnie Ware who recorded the wishes of individuals in palliative care in a piece that was profiled in The Guardian. I heard about this from a TED talk by Jane McGonigal who talked on turning her survival after a concussion into a game. I’ve embedded the video after the list below, but wanted to take a brief moment to reflect on this. I think a lot of happiness is tied into how we perceive ourselves, and not falling under the auspices of how perception is laid upon is. Soren Kierkegaard wrote, “Once you label me you negate me.” Regret is a strong…
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Concentrate Better? Yes, Please.
How can you concentrate more? It’s something that many people are struggling with. In the US, the New York Times reported that 11% of school-age children have received a diagnosis of ADHD. While that number has been disputed, there’s a general theme arising in society about the amount of information available and our brain’s ability to compute it. The Economist highlighted this in their special report on aging asking some pretty important questions on the ability to handle information. We’re also living in a climate where the speed of information is changing. How do you cope with all the bullshit? I was struck this week by Hugh McGuire’s piece “Why can’t we…
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Book Review: “Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor” by Tren Griffin (2015)
“Simplicity has a way of improving performance through enabling us to better understand what we are doing.” – Charlie Munger Most people with a some background in business know about Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway’s investment prowess through the years. He’s a darling of the media and provides an inescapable light in the overly complex darkness of financial matters. The company’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska is a mecca for the likes of Bill Gates to hear his thoughts on the world and investment. Charlie Munger is his partner and absolutely genius in the investing community. This book “Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor” is a decent piece of work curating Munger’s…
