I’ve got to admit, I have nothing to complain about when it comes to my salary. At least not at this stage of my career. It’s been a long but fairly prosperous journey since I graduated from a dominant Big10 school back in the mid-90s. I started out making a hefty salary of $27,500 in […]
Life Purpose and Lifestyle
How to do More Pull Ups (Not the Diaper Variety)
Have you had enough of personal finance bloggers coming at you with their physical fitness makeovers? No? Well fine then. Cuz I’m about to fire up a few paragraphs on how to do more pull ups. After all, they are the end-all and be-all of strength exercises. And as a bonus, yours truly is going to […]
Should You Teach Your Children How to be Millionaires?
An article on Yahoo! Finance caught my eye this past week: 4 millionaire money habits to teach your kids, by Jeanie Ahn. I thought the advice was pretty good. Boiled down, you simply coach your kids to save, understand compounding, avoid frivolous spending, and be charitable. We can get behind that, right? Take these four […]
City vs. Suburbs: Why the City Always Wins
Thanks to being an urban planning major in college, I have a pretty good pulse on how cities develop, change, decline, and gentrify over time. Fair to say that some cities are better than others when it comes to emergency response times, access to clean, potable water, and parks. If I had a choice over […]
Happiness? Better to Pursue Purpose and Struggle Instead
Happiness? What is this elusive feeling we chase like a cat after a laser pointer. We’re nuts about the topic. In a society that has all the material wealth it could possibly need, we come up short. Combine happiness and purpose on the other hand… We’re bombarded with countless books on the subject. The Dali Lama […]