I’m home for the evening from a weekend Buddhist meditation retreat, and I was thinking about how unlikely it was that I’d have much to post on this blog about it.
But then I realized that there is something of value for my readers. I’ve blogged before about giving gifts and feeling better about spending […]
I’m in the middle of reading Robert Frank’s fascinating new book "Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich."
One measure of a book is how many conversations it sparks, and by that measure this book is gold. I brought it on vacation, ending up talking about it […]
I was listening to a Kiyosaki CD today while taking a break from programming. I find his stuff mostly too simplistic, but I was liking it today for some reason, when I heard Kiyosaki make a really funny and interesting point.
He says that some few people can get rich by scrimping and saving. […]
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As I mentioned in my previous post Getting help=more time to make money, it is time for my family to get a maid.
Both my wife and I spend far too much time taking care of the routine cleaning tasks generated by a household of two adults, three children, two dogs and two cats. That […]
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This weekend I finished reading "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich" by Timothy Ferriss. I just got it last week, and I read it straight through, putting aside all other books for a couple days.
I’m not going to give it an in-depth review. I think David Seah […]
In a momentous move for me, I’ve finally actually paid someone to do something I really could’ve done myself. This is a huge change for me, and I can’t believe it took me until almost 40 years old before I could get comfortable with it.
I paid a strong young guy $250 to rip out […]
Tags: Lifestyle · Personal Growth
A few weeks ago, I talked about discovering Charter Schools in Portland. We’d applied for both of our school-age kids after a very impressive visit. It is a lottery system to get into the schools, with a preference for existing students’ siblings. We were fairly sure Ian would get into the highschool, […]
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