Category: Money
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“Live a gentle human-size life.”
Dave Winer, one of the fathers of the Internet, wrote a great post on his blog the other day about Peter Thiel and “the struggle to live more than one life.” The point of the post is this: no amount of money or cool things will allow you to be…
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What “struggling” doesn’t mean
Look. I’m here because artificial poverty makes me sad and angry. And though I see and hear plenty of examples of it firsthand (and am at times guilty of it myself), there are of course these outrageous published accounts about how “We’re struggling to get by on £200,000 a year.” This statement,…
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Infant swim lessons and savvy kids
We took our ten month old son to the first of six weekly “swim lessons” yesterday. Of course he won’t actually learn to swim over the course of those lessons, but that’s not actually the point. The point is expose him from a very early age to the way his…
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Clumsy starts vs. non-starts.
Getting messy while trying is infinitely better than not trying at all.
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Guardrails vs. ruts
Can you imagine how much more difficult driving a curvy back road would be if you had to keep your car inside two ruts, just big enough for your tires? It would be a nightmare. The slightest mis-steer would lead to overcorrection which would lead to you bouncing out of…
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Spontaneity as a discipline
Sometimes it’s easy to assume that the more tightly controlled and line-itemed your finances are, the better. But actually, we need to build in Room. Room allows us to be spontaneous. And spontaneity is an invaluable component of any relationship, our relationship with money not excluded. But without Room–without having…
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Too much running, too little play
Andrea Pirlo had this to say about Major League Soccer (the American professional soccer league) yesterday: “It’s a very hard league to play in. It’s very physical, there’s a lot of running. So there is a lot of physical work and to me, in my mind, too little play. What…
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Barbershop generosity
I grew up in a very small town, and at the age of 7 I began selling the local newspaper to the businesses that surrounded the central courthouse. Many of my first financial lessons were learned in the 5 or 6 years I carried on this venture, but Generosity…
Meaningful Returns 