How I Smartphone
We’re now accustomed to having a device on us at all times that’s amazingly small and that can access most of the entire corpus of human knowledge. Usually in a couple seconds. Sometimes it still blows my mind when I...
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U.S. Median Income Map Animation From 1985 – 2017
My geography based income reports are some of the more popular posts on my blog. People tend to identify with place, and let’s face it, maps are just plain cool. They reveal patterns and things unseen. Especially when they’re showing...
Why Middle Management Sucks
About 11 years into my current job I became a supervisor. It just happened, sometimes you have to step up to fill a void. I had been front-loading my career for a while, meaning simply working my butt off. I...
Emotions Have No Place In Your Investment Strategy
Chances are when someone smiles at you you will smile back. Even when you’re having a crappy day. Emotions and their expression are contagious. It’s human nature. According to this article from Psychology Today: Happiness extended up to three degrees...
Poverty, Bubbles, And The Line
I sat there in the passenger seat of my buddy Don’s car. He was in the drivers seat but we weren’t going anywhere. We just sat, drunk off our asses in the parking lot of a strip club in Baltimore. ...
Sometimes A New Car Might Be Better
Now hold on AF readers, don’t freak out at the title yet. You know a major reason I got to financial independence in my early 40’s was because I bought older used vehicles. The kind we used to call hoopties....
FINCON 2018, The All-Star Game
Wow, FINCON. To say it exceeded my expectations would be an understatement. I’ve figured out money, how to save it, invest it, maximize it’s utility in my life. I reached financial independence in my early 40’s and semi-retired from my...
Which Cities Have The Most Ultra-Rich?
It’s official, according to research firm Wealth-X New York no longer has the largest population of ultra-rich folks. As this Bloomberg piece reports, Hong Kong now has the distinction of having the highest number of people worth at least $30...
How Being Underpaid Took My Career To The Next Level
Way back last century, I was still just a few years into my government career after leaving the private sector. It was a massive cultural change to go to a government job from a small dot com company, and I...
All FIRE’D Up!
Are you ready folks? I was running the other day and this song came blaring out of my headphones. Crank it up while you’re reading and just rawk!! I had a crush on Pat Benatar when I was...
What Alex Honnold Can Teach Us About Living
Okay, if you bothered to open this post after seeing the title you probably fall in one of two camps. The first camp are people who follow the world of outdoor sports and who are possibly climbers or know something...
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