According to an Indeed Hiring Lab analysis, women now hold more payroll jobs than men in America. It’s only the third time this has ever happened. The first two times, during the Great Recession and just before COVID, the gap snapped back once construction and manufacturing started hiring again. This time looks different. Between February […]
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Back on June 30, I published Summer YOLO Fund: Permission To Spend, giving myself explicit written permission to blow through $40,000 in Honolulu this summer. The $40,000 was originally earmarked for investments in private startups after attending YC demo day. However, I wasn’t able to invest in companies I wanted, whether due to valuations or the
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I write before my kids wake up and after they go to sleep. That’s the arrangement. It means I’m free during summer, winter, and spring breaks, along with weekends, which is the whole point of building a lifestyle business in the first place. I gave up a handsome paycheck for the ability to always be the one
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Ever since two park rangers approached me at an empty public court while I was teaching my own children tennis, I’ve been thinking about how to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Not just to me. To anybody. The problem that afternoon wasn’t that the rangers were doing their jobs. The problem was information. They
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There are layers to freedom, and most of us only ever peel back two. The first layer is breaking free from your parents. Some people manage it the summer after high school. Others are still depending on dad to pay their new credit card charges at 37. The second layer is breaking free from work.
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After reviewing dozens of financial tools on this site since 2009, ProjectionLab is one of the most comprehensive planning tools I’ve come across. It shows you how today’s financial decisions play out over the next 10, 20, and even 40 years, with a modern interface that makes financial planning something you actually want to do. As a
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One of my biggest fears as a parent is raising kids who can’t launch into adulthood on their own. My hope is that by 26, three years after college to find their footing, they can support themselves without my money. If they can’t, I’m afraid I’ll feel like I failed them as a father. So
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Recently, I shared a sample budget of a family of four earning $408,000 a year on Twitter, the amount third-party data deems necessary to feel comfortable in San Francisco. To be clear, this wasn’t my budget and it wasn’t a recommendation. It was an illustration of how fast a six-figure household income disappears once taxes, shelter,
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Back in 2018, I wrote that households need to earn $300,000 a year to live a middle-class lifestyle in an expensive coastal city. The internet was not pleased. I was called out of touch, delusional, and a few other things I can’t print on a family finance blog. After having a second child in December 2019, I
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One of the greatest ironies in personal finance is that the people with the most money sometimes live the most uncomfortably. After spending another summer in Honolulu with my parents, I’ve been thinking hard about why. This post is a love letter to frugal parents everywhere. It’s also a nudge for all of us adult
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