Writing self-congratulatory posts about trips booked with miles is great and all, but one risks becoming complacent and boring. Shall we mix it up a bit then?Dare I dip my toe back into the toxic cauldron of politics? You betcha! (but don’t worry, I’ll tie it in with personal-finance later.) I can see into Putin’s […]
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Below the Surface
One of the themes of this blog, I think, is “respect your subconscious.” As in; How the hell did my churning credit cards in order to gather frequent flyer miles lead me to reorganize my entire financial life and really start focusing on maximizing my own “happiness?” This is a puzzle, to be sure. And […]
Utility Bills
My interest in early retirement is a recent development. (Further proof that the new convert is always the most fervent.) So I sometimes wonder what I would have done differently had I had this philosophy when I first finished my electrophysiology fellowship and started my career. From my current vantage point I can see that […]
Let’s Get Real
Shall we start tonight’s post with a shockingly beautiful, profound quote? This is from Haruki Murakami, The Japanese writer after whom my wife and I named our oldest son. “If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I […]
The Taxman Always Thinks Twice
There are many ways to go about justifying tax avoidance. I’ve already written here and here about my own justifications for trying to decrease my tax burden. But this is such a ripe area for ethical exploration. So why not dig in a little deeper? My gestalt is that people’s opinion on tax avoidance is […]
inconsistencies
There is a tendency in writing about oneself to accentuate the positive. This is probably extends from the way that we see the world. From one perspective. Through one set of eyes. We are the protagonists of our own novels so we want to be likable, (most of all to ourselves.) But every story has […]
One Thing Leads to Another
I love writing this blog everyday. I love the structure of sitting by myself for an hour and getting my thoughts down on paper (screen). I love editing my posts and whittling away at the extraneous in order to bring out the central. And I love rambling on and on about subjects that are interesting […]
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 […]
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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