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My son’s favorite word–and it’s not particularly close, though to be fair he only knows about three–is “truck.” He knows exactly what a truck is, that his dad drives one, that they make loud noises, and that many things can be called “truck” that aren’t trucks. Apparently. Well, we got him a book from the
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The first rule of personal finance is probably, “Spend less than you make.” But a close second, if not a tie for first is, “Have an emergency fund.” It’s the second one which makes poverty so devastating and tropes about bootstrapping so generally unhelpful. Because it is very possible to abide by the first and
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Have you heard of this channel on cable called HGTV? It’s a very strange channel. Like, don’t ever let an adult with cable tell you they don’t watch cartoons anymore, because HGTV is just cartoons for adults. It’s the kind of channel that you can watch and suddenly have a revelation that you can’t remember
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There will always, always, always be someone who can do the technical parts of your job better than you can. But, there is only one you. The technical part is the baseline, but you? You’re meant to be the gravy on top of it all. So the idea is for you to figure out how
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I used to work for the premier accounting firm in the world. That’s a subjective statement, but so is “Dook basketball is the worst.” But you know something about that place? Besides being the best at what we did, and besides having incredibly talented people there that were, for lack of better phrasing, just good as
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Though I claim the Old North State as my own, I was actually born in Southern California, which is something I used to think made me really cool to girls in middle school, probably. California is, and I mean this as non-pejoratively as I can, a strange magical land. And it has been for a
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I have not been to a doctor for a checkup since the summer before my senior year in high school. I’m not saying this because I’m proud, but because it’s the truth. My wife and I have discussed slash yelled about this truth a number of times, and this has all culminated in her sending
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When I was a kid with an amazingly active imagination and a good bit of time on my hands, I would often find myself rummaging about the house for tape to use on some brainy idea or other, generally involving Batman figurines. And I can remember to this day how frustrated I would get with masking
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Maybe you’ve seen this; maybe you haven’t. But Wells Fargo was fined $185 million yesterday by a collection of regulators for fraudulently opening up two million unnecessary accounts for its “valued customers,” simply because new accounts means new fees. And this wasn’t the result of two or three rogue branches–like, I’ve always wondered why the branch
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