- No one deserves to be praised for kindness if he does not have the strength to be bad
- Don’t let yourself get stereotyped
- Everything’s taxed
Articles of the Week
A collection of insightful articles I read each week
Week of March 18, 2024
Week of March 11, 2024
- We all just need a little bit more money
- Acceptable types of lifestyle creep
- Happiness is the only logical pursuit
Week of March 4, 2024
- Undervalued financial advice
- Build your life around leisurely ethic
- Collection of thoughts on investing
Week of February 26, 2024
- Three questions to answer before investing in an Active Fund
- How to stop being rich and happy
- Be wary of financial gaslighting
Week of February 19, 2024
- Defying your parents is a mark of a thinking man
- Some of the most important topics in life are the hardest to teach
- Investment Porn is one of the biggest enemies an investor faces
Week of February 12, 2024
- Do not assume ‘bigger’ and ‘fancier’ means ‘better’ and ‘happier’
- How to build financial confidence
- Every transformation demands as its precondition the collapse of an old philosophy of life
Week of February 5, 2024
- Rest is when you are not associating your self worth with what you have to do next
- Happiness is an inside job
- You are thinking about ‘financial security’ the wrong way
Week of January 29, 2024
- Knowing what to want is much harder than knowing what to need
- Do not focus on solving the wrong problems
- Personal finance is not always about Money
Week of January 22, 2024
- Sometimes what we attribute to good character is just availability of money and time
- Develop active patience which is knowing what you are looking for but doing nothing until you find it
- How to guarantee a miserable life
Week of January 15, 2024
- Beware of the mask you wear
- Do not chase returns
- How to legally own another person
Week of January 8, 2024
Week of January 1, 2024
- If you are stuck, refer to the myriad ways we stuck ourselves to then unstuck yourself from
- 20 timeless truths of health and well-being
- What matters in life and what doesn’t
Week of December 25, 2023
- Learning to love and accept everything that happens
- The secret to happiness? De-Atomization
- We are made to live like firemen
Week of December 18, 2023
- Find the sweet spot to get the most out of your own life
- Most people are wired to seek status and success, not happiness.
- Return on Hassle; When the reward is just not worth it
Week of December 11, 2023
- Your career is not your life
- Avoid lifestyle creep by living beneath your assets
- If the question is how much money do you need to be happy? The answer will always be more!
Week of December 4, 2023
- Practice the art of embracing imperfection
- The power of anti-goals
- Opinions are bullshit, including your own!
Week of November 27, 2023
- Opting out of the microwave economy
- Semantic stop sign i.e. when you stop thinking past this point
- The boxers’ child paradox; Parents who gained from a tough childhood do not want to give their children a tough upbringing
Week of November 20, 2023
- If everything was taken away, what would you give to just have what you currently have?
- What happened in financial markets in Q2 2019? Do not remember and does not matter
- Accepting boredom is an investor’s last remaining edge
Week of November 13, 2023
- We all have enough strength to endure the others’ misfortune
- Why your next action is everything
- Escape the ‘When-Then’ trap
Week of November 6, 2023
- The pursuit of success makes it harder to truly feel successful
- The joy of walking away
- A few downsides of getting rich