A Requiem to Old Stuff and Army Service
The most pivotal moments in life never seem that way in the present. The weight of our actions usually become known only when we look […]
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$1,000 Per Month in Dividends, or a Minimum-Wage Leprechaun?
When I told my wife what I thought was going on, she gave her typical response, “Eric, have you been drinking the homemade liquor again?” […]
Memoirs of a Professional College Student
I’ve never told anyone this story before—not my wife, not my long-time friends, not nobody. You’re the first to hear it. Part of the appeal […]
TopCashback Will Change How You Spend Money
In its simplest terms, the internet is just a big marketplace made up of three players: storefronts, promoters, and customers. The customers are all of us: […]
An Update on that “Early Retirement” Thing
It’s been 231 days since I last provided an update on my financial situation and my progress toward early retirement. That delay is partly attributable to […]
The Most Addictive Thing In The World
The blog-turned-book When to Rob a Bank, by authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (of Freakonomics fame), is a compilation of short missives that are meant […]
How to Spell “Love”
I remember the moment I fell in love with my wife. A year before I proposed, I was completing my undergrad at the University of […]
$400,000: A Net Worth Milestone Requires Reflection on How it All Happened
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of medical device startup Theranos, has had a rough week. Theranos was once the darling unicorn of biotech. The […]
Picking Up Dandelions: Lessons From 10 Days Without a Cell Phone
There is a yuppie restaurant called Public House in National Harbor, MD. It was 2011 and my wife and I were still dual-income-no-kids, so we […]
Three Stocks You Can Own Forever
In his 1988 Annual Letter to Shareholders, the human epigram known as Warren Buffett gave what would become his most famous quote, “[W]hen we own portions of […]