OK, in my last post, “The Living Daylights,” I blathered on about a New Yorker “Politics and More” podcast episode featuring comedian and TV program-host Hasan Minhaj. That post focused on something that Minhaj said that piqued my interest. To wit, his assertion that there’s a fundamental difference between “surviving” and “living,” and his explanation…
The Living Daylights
Continuing on the theme of all things podcasts that I’m listening to — which I’ve explored in some recent posts — a few months ago I started regularly listening to the New Yorker‘s “Politics and More” podcast. I’m a fan of the New Yorker magazine, so when I learned of the podcast, I figured I’d…
Pardon Me. I Must Be Mistaken.
I’ve made lotsa mistakes in the area of everything personal finance. Lotsa. Thankfully, aside from the minor matter of taking out many tens of thousands of dollars in loans to attend a meh law school (I may or may not understand the meaning of the word “minor”) none have been debilitating. Most other major mistakes…
One-Fifth to Rule Them All
As I mentioned in my last blog post, “Could It Always Be Worse? Probably, Yes. That’s Good.” I recently started listening regularly to Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. I also recently started regularly listening to The Axe Files with David Axelrod. Axelrod, for those of you who may not know, is a political consultant who’s most famous for…
Could It Always Be Worse? Probably, Yes. That’s Good.
I recently started regularly listening to Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, which features interviews of comedians and other celebrities. Apparently, I’m not his only listener. WTF? I first became aware of Marc and his podcast in 2014, soon after Robin Williams’ death. It was then that I read something about a 2010 WTF interview of Robin….
The Carlmelsiddanjerry Guide to a Long, Active, and Happy Life
Carl Reiner, a titan of American comedy and entertainment over the last 100 years, died last week. For those of you not as familiar as you should be with Carl, his tremendous talent and range, and his litany of achievements, the opening line to his Wikipedia entry sets things up nicely: “Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922 –…
Tenantus Shot
In a post that I published last week, “Foregeative Experiences: Property, Oh Brothers!,” I whined about discussed our experience with buying/owning property that I’ve lived in. The short takeaway on said experience: I did not like that, Sam I am. I’ve read all manner of accounts of people extolling the wonders of building wealth and…
Don’t Kill Your News Feed. Cull It.
I have a painful admission to make. I’m a FI-blog junkie. It’s better than being a junkie of the more, shall we say, conventional sort. But it’s not without its problems. For example, since starting to read FI blogs I have since (re-)grown a mustache, which sort of makes me look like a sort-of backwoods…
Foregeative Experiences: Property, Oh Brothers!
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I didn’t get a lot of good or bad money advice growing up, other than generally to be frugal. As I’ve also mentioned, I learned that lesson pretty well. Too well in some cases. I got my degree in Financialmoneynomics from the School of Hard Knocks, or “the SHaK,”…
Phoning It in
Dear Reader, please indulge me by closing your eyes and taking a trip to Imaginationland. Picture if you will a land in which there are no smartphones. In fact, there aren’t even any cell phones, let alone ones you can fit in anything smaller than a small backpack. My readers of a certain age may…
