Category: Vocation
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Can Marvel teach us to be more ordinary?
Here’s a link to the Wikipedia page which shows the list of live-action films that have come out of the Marvel Comics universe. From 1944 to 2001, there were seven films. From 2002 through this year there have been THIRTY-NINE. Another nine are already planned through 2019. There’s nothing wrong…
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Is “financial literacy” useful?
Is that sacrilegious of me to ask? Maybe. I think there are multiple answers here, because the question is actually multiple questions. On the one hand the question is: Is “financial literacy” in its ideal format useful? And the answer to that one’s easy (though maybe not terribly practical): YES. I…
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You’re meant to be the gravy
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…
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Why are you working so much?
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…
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Love your job this much
I’ve had a lot of jobs. I got paid for some of them. The worst job I had was in high school working at a furniture store where new and used furniture was sold and delivered, for a fee. I almost cut my left index finger off at that job. And…
Meaningful Returns 