Author: Jared Korver
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Free stuff that matters
Do you know how much it costs to look someone in the eye, or to put your phone down and listen, or to send a random note, or to shoot baskets with your kid, or to give someone a ride, or to ask a good question, or to say “I…
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Talk to someone before you buy those Cam Newton Versace pants
I have a story to tell, and it has very little to do with Cam Newton and his Versace pants, but just enough that I justified creating that scintillating if not somewhat misleading title. But first, some context: I own a truck. The truck is a great truck (a Toyota…
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What dunking a basketball can teach us about investment risk
What I’m about to tell you may come across as braggy, and that’s because it is. But it’s one of my life’s greatest accomplishments so I don’t care: I first dunked a basketball in 8th grade. But it was one of the last days of 8th grade, and only my…
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“America’s Golf Courses Are Burning”
That’s the headline in this article over at Bloomberg today, and basically the short of it is, way too many golf courses were built back in 1990s and early 2000s AND golf is becoming less popular, which is a situation that could be filed under “Candle Burning at Both Ends.”…
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Buy art from artists
Our culture would literally fold in on itself without people who are willing to devote their lives to making art. Supporting these people is supporting the fabric of society.
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Happiness is an inexact science, and not a science at all
Your present self doesn’t quite know what will make your future self truly happy and fulfilled, which makes this business of living a pretty tough one. We sort of go around doing things right now that our in-five-seconds-or-hours-or-months-or-years-self will appreciate and be grateful for, and this is natural and expected.…
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Play It Again Sports, skipping Halloween, and the importance of family rituals
Despite the wonderful reality of having a Piggly Wiggly and a public pool and a library all within a two block radius, the town I grew up in had fewer homes than my current neighborhood in Raleigh, and it was a big deal when they built the strip mall with…
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What’s the coolest under-$10 purchase you’ve made?
I have, on my keychain, an odd looking piece of metal. I don’t know exactly what it looks like, but whenever I see it I think of a Lego figure’s arm and hand. It’s a bottle opener, and it says PEABODY’S on it, and I think it was somewhere in…
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What if your gym membership isn’t actually “invaluable”?
Being healthy is very important, first of all, so please don’t read this and go away telling everyone that Jared Korver is breathing lies and contributing to America’s health problems. But I have a story to tell: I once joined, on a trial basis, a gym that I will not…
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Maybe you shouldn’t invest like a billionaire
Barry Ritholtz (one of the good guys in finance) wrote a great piece yesterday at Bloomberg about all of the recent calls from a number of billionaires to essentially “sell everything.” Barry’s main point is that you shouldn’t much bother about these calls unless you, too, are a billionaire and…
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