Happy 2018 Everyone! Here is my 2017 year in review. Since the year doesn’t really start until the second week of January, I’ve decided to spend more time reflecting. Hopefully you will too on a tropical island somewhere. Before 2017, the best year of my life was when I got married on a cozy beach […]
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Here are some investing lessons from a surreal 2017. It’s always good to learn and review each year to hopefully improve risk-adjusted returns. At the beginning of the year, I decided to track my investments with a detailed spreadsheet. My cash flow was increasing and I wanted to make sure the money was being properly deployed.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone! Here are the top Financial Samurai posts of 2017. The best thing about hard work is when it’s over. Once finished, you can basically sit back and enjoy all of the rewards if you wish. And if you hustle long enough, you might positively change your life forever. In 2017 I wrote 175 posts, averaging
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I firmly believe tax policy changes behavior. The higher your taxes go, the BETTER your life becomes! Why? Because at the margin, the less money you keep, the less motivated you’ll be to work. Since the love of money is the root of all evil, the less time you spend chasing money, the happier you will be. One of
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Everybody wants to be happy all the time. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unhappy and lonely people all around us, especially post pandemic. This post looks at happiness by age and how happiness changes over time. It’s interesting to see how much happiness changes at different points in our lives. Thankfully, we tend to
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If you are looking to hire a financial advisor, this post will discuss some questions to ask before you do. It’s important to hire an experienced financial advisor who actually also has more wealth than you do. Imagine learning how to cook from someone who only knows how to operate a microwave oven. Yum! Those
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To get better, you must be brutally honest with yourself. Open yourself up to stinging criticism and judgement so that you may improve upon your deficiencies. One of the downsides of putting yourself out there is that you open yourself up to misinterpretation or criticism. Fear of ridicule is one of the biggest reasons why
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Interesting in investing in speculative investments like Bitcoin without losing lots of money? You’re not alone. With Bitcoin and other speculative investments reaching all-time highs, everybody is feeling investing FOMO and wanting to get rich quick. In late 1999 I had my Bitcoin moment. I was a 22 year old first year analyst working on
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Wondering why you didn’t get the job? There’s an overwhelming demand for every job position today. Whether it’s as a barista at Starbucks or a marketing director at a tech company, competition is fierce. Landing a job these days can feel like winning the lottery. In this post, I spoke with some Human Resources (HR)
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The following is a guest post from my friend Joel who has been investing in domain names for years! Chances are that when you read the term “domain name investing” you immediately have the following questions pop up: Umm [insert embarrassed pause here], what exactly is a domain name anyway? Do you mean like a
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