One of the reasons that economics is so interesting is that it really gets at what makes us tick as human beings.As far as I can tell, this science is the study of human incentive. Now I am not saying that human beings are motivated only by money . We are motivated by sex, and […]
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Better than Sliced Bread
Damn this is fun. Travel hacking in general, and manufactured spending specifically really hit a bunch of high points with me. There’s the illicit pleasure of doing something that you’re not supposed to do. It reminds me of raiding my parents’ liquor cabinet as a 13-year-old with my friends. Ahhh…. Manufactured spending plus geri curl […]
Brush with Greatness
Last Thursday I had a tremendous opportunity. Mr. Money Mustache himself was on his West Coast swing, and had planned a get together with a couple of other blogs and blog groupies (guilty as charged) at a local park in Portland. And I just couldn’t resist the urge to go. You see it is not […]
Spring Rolls and Loyal3
Spring is springing around here. Nettles and dandelions are poking through my raised beds. Grasses are stubbornly shooting through the cracks in between my patio bricks. There is a strange yellow orb in the sky where the clouds used to be. The air is warm and redolent with Pollen and other allergens. And the miles […]
There is no Monster Under Your Bed
One of the most interesting aspects of fear is that it is often completely irrational. Which is not to say that fear is unnecessary, or even not useful. It’s just that it seems to reside in the deeper less evolved parts of our brains. It’s a more animal, and a less analytical response to the […]
Whitecoat Faceoff: Unballing your Yarn
One of the most valuable things about writing regularly, is that it frequently brings into stark relief my own biases. Many of the errors that I make come from a place of utter blindness. Although I’d like to think of myself as a fairly empathetic dude, it becomes clear that I spend all of my […]
Lurking Below
There is something present in you and in me at all times and in all situations to varying degrees. Beneath the surface whenever we meet someone new, or give a talk, or ask the boss for a raise, or fly on a plane, or cross the street, or look out of the window in a […]
K.I.S.S.
Having had the good fortune to complete high school, an undergraduate degree, four years of medical school, three years of internship/residency, three years of a cardiology fellowship, and one year of a subspecialty fellowship in arrhythmia, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to learn from a lot of teachers. And when I look back at […]
Details, details….
Please excuse the shortened format tonight. Please also forgive me the lack of funny pictures. You see the Dividend clan decided to go for a last-minute memorial day vacation up to Seattle. A Priceline Westin room near our favorite Taiwanese Shanghainese soup dumpling place for 150 bucks, a stroll through the Chihuly Gardens with their […]
Mean Streets
If you’re looking for a North star to guide you on your investing journey, you could do a lot worse than to set your course by John Bogle. If the prevailing ethic that guides Wall Street is to “sell the sizzle and not the steak,” meaning to appeal to people’s fears and greed to sell […]
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