In my view, the miles game is a perfect accompaniment to a frugal living, early retirement lifestyle. Playing the miles game allows one to escape some of the puritanical asceticism that can make the pursuit of early retirement a little bit of a downer for some people. I want to shrink my carbon footprint as […]
Archive | February, 2014
Never Work a Day in Your Life
It is said that if you love your job you will never work another day in your life. As far as I can see,there’s a certain truth to this, but it’s not the complete truth. From where I’m sitting, I would say something more along the lines of, “If you enjoy your work, you’re really […]
Bending Space Time
One of the difficult things about financial planning, is that the timescale is all off. Investment gains accumulate in a logarithmic fashion. There are small, imperceptible changes at first, and only over time do these changes accelerate. By the time the change becomes perceptible, it’s pretty much impossible to double down or to make positive […]
The Importance of Being Schmucky
Everyone’s got a theory. I’m fairly sure the equity markets going to decline sometime in the near future. (The price to earnings ratio of the S&P 500 is much higher than average, which has historically predicted lower returns going forward, (although that may change if the market continues to pull back.) Warren Buffett almost always […]
How Howard Stern Teaches Me to Be a Better Doctor
Maybe you already love Howard Stern. If so, I can’t imagine you’ll learn much from me. I’m no Superfan. But maybe you hate Howard Stern. Maybe you think he’s a sexist. Maybe you think it’s cruel the way he uses freaks (like little people with bad attitudes, schizophrenic pakastani teenagers, Tan Mom or…. list goes […]
Blue Ribbon Prize
I’ve been playing the miles game for about a year now. I’ve completed four separate card churns and have extracted terrific rewards. In the process I have saved thousands of dollars in travel, which I then dutifully invested in my retirement. I was planning my upcoming card churn today and trying to figure out which […]
Weighing In
So a month has passed since I proclaimed my intention to try the Vegan Before Six experiment. I talked about the philosophy behind VB6, and why it was appealing to me. My understanding is less theoretical now. I’ve lived it for a month. And it’s time for me to report back. But first i’ll surrender […]
How to Drink Wine
My nose is not small. That’s a fact. Although aesthetically a little ski jump a la Brad Pitt is generally seen as the ideal nose, I’ve tried to comfort myself with the idea that big noses simply must be better at smelling. One of the great things about wine tasting is that you can unselfconsciously […]
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