- Travel is no cure for the mind
- Beware of Goodharting yourself
- Wealth is the control of time
Articles of the Week
A collection of insightful articles I read each week
Week of October 30, 2023
Week of October 23, 2023
- It’s never a market crash problem
- Is lusting after our ‘Dream Homes’ making us miserable?
- Time will pass anyway so it is up to you to what expertise you have or not after that time has passed
Week of October 16, 2023
- Emotions and Investing
- In praise of slowness, in life and investing
- Few heuristics to help you make decisions
Week of October 9, 2023
- Financial advice on what’s important and unimportant
- The Pareto principle never gets old
- We are all unreliable narrators
Week of October 2, 2023
- A few uncommon insights
- Today is never too late to be brand new
- Beware of the illusion of explanatory depth
Week of September 25, 2023
- You cannot have it all
- Luck permeates much of your financial experience
- The golden rule of personal finance
Week of September 18, 2023
- What does it mean to be wealthy
- Wondering how much so and so makes? Don’t
- Why you are not running out of time
Week of September 11, 2023
- On cherishing the present and the downsides of always longing for a better future
- The higher my desire for fancy stuff, the less real value I have to offer
- The power of small invisible gestures
Week of September 4, 2023
- Freedom is just allowing life to be
- Sometimes making a stupid purchase is the only thing that makes any sense
- Live a life that looks cool to you
Week of August 28, 2023
- The meaning of life is bullshit
- Nothing is as desired as much as the thing you want but can’t have
- You can be successful without being insufferable
Week of August 21, 2023
Week of August 14, 2023
Week of August 7, 2023
- Make yourself a person that ‘handles hard well’
- Don’t take the money
- Diversify your friends and financial goals
Week of July 31, 2023
- How to live an asymmetric life
- Take advantage of hindsight before you get there
- Not everyone is out to get you
Week of July 24, 2023
- Everything is cyclical
- It is arrogant to procrastinate
- Going the distance
Week of July 17, 2023
- The best position to be in is Rich and Anonymous
- Why you make terrible life choices
- Living with intention
Week of July 10, 2023
- When the Money is just too good
- Money lessons from a successful author
- How would you define financial freedom?
Week of July 3, 2023
- Let go of what is already gone
- Knowing what you want is the ultimate life skill
- What generates all the emotion is just how big the gap is between expectations and reality
Week of June 26, 2023
- Build a life you are not trying to flee
- The problem of what others think
- Stop apologizing for being yourself
Week of June 19, 2023
- Why you believe the things you do
- Always keep your overhead low
- How to know you are rich