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Free is Magic

So, after waxing poetically about CDs and DVDs from 2 decades ago and ripping a couple of select anime series[1] and movies, I turned around and threw away the disks. As opposed to searching...

Funny Chart Investing

Ever since the Square IPO, I’ve been keeping a closer eye on, while trying to learn more about, the US stock market. Even though my first job out of school involved supporting systems that...

Meme Finance

Out of college, I joined a company that aggregated financial data to sell to stock market traders and analysts; briefly explored the Master of Financial Engineering degree at Cal; ended up working for two FinTech...

Review: Die with Zero

The title gives away the ending— Die with Zero is a book about maximizing your financial resources, such that there ought to be nary a cent left by the time you move to the farm...

The End of FIRE

One of my more popular blog posts here still getting regular Google search traffic is building a financial spreadsheet. I put it together to answer the question "how much can I safely spend any...