In bull markets, like what we’re seeing today, a lot of people feel wealthier. They look at their portfolios and realize they are up say 20-30% and believe they are “way ahead’. Unfortunately, this may or may not be true in terms of their actual wealth. Why? Well wealth is relative to the people around […]

After a lot of back and forth on Twitter we thought it’d make sense to come up with some real solutions to real world problems. A lot of them are not “perfect” as no solution to large scale problems ever is. That said, we think there are some clear ways to improve the USA without […]

To be clear, we’re making no change to our original recommendations. For a summary of why you need to start a Company or business at some point (ideally now) you can see our post on the Company man.  That said, we got into a quick Twitter back and forth about the perils of traveling abroad […]

Happy New Year! Hopefully you didn’t waste your night partying in areas with no barriers to entry/filter and a bunch of blacked out people who dropped $100+ to go to the same place they always go to. If you did, well that’s unfortunate but still not the end of the world. You can always go […]

For some reason the holiday season always causes us to think about major life changing events and significant milestones. There are a few things that change the way you think about life. Most of them involve mental shifts and some simply come out of the blue. If you don’t experience some of them, you’ll never […]

For the vast majority, money is never “enough” which means that you’ll adjust to the amount you have. Unless you become filthy rich (over $50M or so), there is always one more thing that someone has in front of you. The key to getting rich and avoiding the spending trip is to force yourself to […]

Remembering that everything compounds is a good way to think about life in general. This applies to fitness, work and even your friendships/relationships. The bigger issue isn’t so much the dollars in your account going up and down, but the consistency and habits you develop over several decades (yes decades) as a single year is […]