When my post on wealth ideas lost to I’ve Paid For This Twice Already in FMF’s March Madness Tournament, I started thinking about snowflaking. Snowflaking is a spinoff of the “snowball” debt elimination concept invented by Dave Ramsey but the snowflaking version of this concept has really been popularized by Paid Twice. In a nutshell, [...] Read more »
15 ways to make your 9-to-5 a 10
I like to think of myself as being a step past the normal employee grind, but I still get up most days and schlep to my client’s office. Sure, I take off when I feel like it and work moderately flexible hours, but I do the lunchpail shuffle. I do know that there are [...] Read more »
poor kid blues
I was rich as a child. Just kidding. I wasn’t. I lived in humble conditions in subsidized housing. My family was so poor we used the residual heat from cooking to heat our home. I had to share a room with my brother. I didn’t get a puppy. We only had one car, and it [...] Read more »
why be rich?
Some of the comments on my post on Friday (part 3 of my 31 causes of failure series, from Think and Grow Rich) made me think a little about how others might perceive my take on “getting wealthy.” I think “getting rich” and “getting wealthy” are two different things, but I blur the distinction in [...] Read more »
a clear and present danger: the humanities
The US government currently has a debt of over $9.2 trillion dollars. In every measure of economic growth the US lags behind Europe and the emerging economic superpowers of India and China. At the same time, over $90 billion dollars will be spent in 2008 on financial aid. At least some of that money will [...] Read more »
so you want to be an international business jet setter…
Here’s an interesting look at my work schedule from about 7 years ago (I dug this up from my journal, which I’ve kept daily for 11 years now). Sunday - evening: Depart from New York, headed to Frankfurt Monday - morning: Arrive in Frankfurt, go to hotel, shower (European time is morning, but more like [...] Read more »
