Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Writing on Oct 31st, 2007
I’ve written before on the importance of knowing the publication that you are submitting work to and how that can help increase your odds of being published as well as getting you exposed to a wider diversity of writing.
Back then I mentioned a few places where you could get some incredibly helpful synopses about a [...]
Posted in Budgeting on Oct 31st, 2007
I’m always on the lookout for good deals when I go out to a bar or restaurant, and before I used to go to Metromix and I would scour their listings for good deals.
No more.
Here is my new favorite website. It uses Google Map’s data and interface to easily search for deals on different days [...]
I was checking my stats today and noticed my Roth IRA vs 401(k) post was getting a lot of hits. Then I noticed that most of them were coming from the wsj.com domain.
I was like, “huh?”
Somehow, on this simple explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of ETFs vs. Index Funds on the Wall Street Journal, [...]
You know that feeling you get when you see a job posting that’s perfect? It has everything you want in your dream job, the pay is incredible, and the requirements seem to be talking about you?
And you know how you put so much work into re-doing your resume just specifically for that job? And how [...]
When I was in high school I had to write a senior thesis and mine was all about persuasion and the different ways that our minds can be twisted and pulled psychologically.
I basically ripped off Robert Cialdini’s excellent book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
One of the things he mentions is how POWs would be forced [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books on Oct 30th, 2007
How I got here: I love George Sauders’s stories
The first time I read George Saunders (CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia), I knew I had found a fresh voice that sounded like nothing I’d ever read before.
He returns here with his latest book, which is all essays.
His unique voice is what carries all these pieces, [...]
My fiancée and I just recently moved in together.
The process of finding a place was complicated because we wanted to get a place we really liked and we wanted to save money for when we actually buy a place down the line. We were both coming from very small studio apartments (I was in an [...]
Posted in Advertising on Oct 30th, 2007
I mentioned this before but now I wanted to really flesh it out.
I was watching TV the other day and an ad came up, I think it was for some financial service, and then it hit me like a wave that a lot of the current ads and articles I’ve seen lately are taking an [...]
Ever heard of a Nigerian 411 scam?
Basically, it’s the type of scam where a guy in Nigeria sends millions of emails to the tune of “I have all this money from a government official who stole it and I need $400 to get it released. I will share $20 million with you.”
And they need your [...]
Sometimes I wish I had an Iphone, like when I’m walking around looking for a breakfast place and can’t quite find it.
But wait, there’s 411 right?
Sure, but my telephone company charges me $1.50 per call plus airtime. So I don’t like to use it.
But I recently came across this article that can get you around [...]
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