Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Motivation on Jan 23rd, 2008
One of my favorite novels of all time is Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. He also wrote The Virgin Suicides, which I have not read but have been meaning to since I first read Middlesex.
Well today I was running a Google News search for “Foster Wallace,” as I tend to do about twice a week (he’s [...]
Posted in Blogging, Happiness, Jobs, Motivation on Jan 23rd, 2008
Last week I wrote about the five ways blogging about personal finance has helped me, and it got me thinking about why I blog. Is it because I may make some money out of it? Get a job out of it?
Sure, all of those are reasons that have kept me motivated to keep working on [...]
Posted in Books on Jan 22nd, 2008
I’ll be honest, when I hear the word “screenwriter” I immediately think “hack.” Is it wrong? Am I jumping the gun a bit?
Sure, but what else would you call someone who takes an original work, breaks it down to its essential parts, and rewrites it in a different format? An editor?
This article got me thinking [...]
Posted in Jobs on Jan 22nd, 2008
For the past few months I have been reading tons of articles with tips for job seekers. Over and over, there were a few tips I kept seeing repeated over and over:
Networking is the most important thing (which relates to the next bullet)
Tell everyone you know that you are looking for a job
Don’t bother putting [...]
Last week I wrote about how the markets have got me nervous. My reasons aren’t because my investments are losing value, it’s because I’m not sure how to best take advantage of the drop.
It’s not easy seeing your hard-earned, hard-saved money getting lobbed off at the head, but that’s just the nature of the beast. [...]
Posted in Financial statements, Investing, Sports on Jan 21st, 2008
So I’m still on the quest to deciphering financial statements. And I still think that a sports analogy will help me draw a parallel between the two so I can be a more informed investor.
I’ve been asking around different forums and groups of people with more experience than myself, and one of the suggestions was [...]
Posted in Finance, Investing, Money and Relationships on Jan 21st, 2008
You hear it everywhere that the thing couples fight about the most is money. Well, in the case of M and I, we don’t really fight about money decisions, although it is hard when you want to do things or buy things that don’t fit into the larger financial plan.
But that’s something we all have [...]
Posted in Outside the box on Jan 19th, 2008
This article has been getting some media coverage lately and I can see why.
It discusses some experiments that revealed people find a more expensive bottle of wine better tasting if the price is much higher, even though it’s really the same exact wine.
Which makes you think, “Ok, I get it. I can see that happening. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Finance, Money and Relationships, Writing on Jan 18th, 2008
This is a notion I picked up in grad school when I was getting my Masters in Writing: For a lot of writers it helps to keep a certain reader in mind as they sit down to write.
Will X like this part? X will think this is funny, right?
It really helps materialize an otherwise ethereal [...]
Posted in Ad Friday, Advertising on Jan 18th, 2008
You may or may not have seen this ad before, but it’s a famous one from the folks over at Coca Cola. In case you didn’t know, they have a much longer version (almost a making of/documentary sort of spoof) that they show down at Coke World in Atlanta (which is actually a lot more [...]
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