• I wrote something yesterday about two of my favorite things: Craigslist and the stock market. But let’s back up. What is investing FOR? Many financial sadnesses eventually find their genesis in someone (or a family of Someones) not getting clear at all about their answers to that question. Or they are crystal clear about their answer, and

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  • The greatest website of all time.

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  • Zoom out.

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  • The myth of our age

    “The myth of our age is that we will only be happy if we get what we want.” – Ed Gungor If you insist on believing that the exchange of dollars for some thing that can be made will bring any lasting sense of happiness, then you will never achieve any lasting sense of happiness.

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  • Salix isn’t the only one.

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  • A value spectrum

    You can value your life by What You Have. Or you can value it by How You Live. Don’t make the mistake of thinking these are two static points of being; they are merely the poles we are moving closer to and further from at all times. Which one are you moving closer to today?  

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  • Donuts and budgeting

    MY FAVORITE THINGS

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  • Ignore it

    Ruthlessly.

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  • Here’s a fascinating, hilarious, and also slightly concerning story from the Atlantic yesterday about how small animals cause power outages. It serves as a powerful reminder that for all the hand-wringing we do about complex, unlikely scenarios that could derail our power plants–or our health or our careers or our finances–maybe we should pay more attention to

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