I bike to work five days a week, and every once in a while, I like to reflect on how fortunate I am to be able to do that. It’s a wonderful situation that I find myself in. I live close enough to my office that biking to work isn’t a particularly difficult thing for […]
Financial Independence
You Choose What You Can Afford
Sometime not too long ago, my wife and I had lunch with my brother and a friend of his. It was our first time meeting this friend, so we got into all of the usual pleasantries that come with meeting someone – what do you do, where do you live, and other things like that. […]
Fighting The Innate Urge To Chase Prestige
Part of the duties of my current day job involves going to a bunch of lawyer conferences. As a result, I’m often surrounded by really successful lawyers. These are lawyers who have done pretty much everything right in their legal careers – top grades, good law schools, big-name law firms. One thing they all definitely […]
Neighborhood Arbitrage – The Advantages Of Living In A College Neighborhood
I’m often met with what I can only say is “bemusement” when fellow attorneys see me biking to get from place to place. Even after 7 months at my new job, the executive director of my organization still asks me every time he sees me whether I biked into work that day. Admittedly, biking is […]
An Investing Tip – Learn To Be Happy With Enough
I recently read an article on Marketwatch about some kid that lost his life savings doing some fancy stock market thing that I didn’t really understand. According to the article, this dude lost his life savings trading something called a “contract for differences.” Whatever that is, it predictably ended up not working out and he […]
Monetize Your Life And Get Paid To Live
Over the past two years or so, I’ve earned a little over $30,000 doing a bunch of interesting side hustles. The question I often get is how I find the time to do all of these things. For most people, the ability to earn extra money comes down to time – most people work all […]