Normal sucks. Normal means spending $100K for a college education that will be little remembered and little used. Normal means walking into a doctor’s office with an ailment and not asking the doctor what he or she will charge to treat that ailment. And normal means amassing debt, tolerating a pointless job, and living paycheck …
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The other day I neglected to enter my bathroom with either my smartphone or the Tools of Titans. So there I was, on the bowl, with nothing to occupy my fertile mind. In a desperate attempt to do something productive, I found myself looking at a part of my bathroom I rarely gazed upon—the bottom guide …
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Oh my gosh. We’re practically half way through August. FinCon 2017 is just around the corner. Sadly, Mrs. Groovy and I aren’t attending this year’s conference in Dallas. Too much on our plate. (I know. Lame excuse.) But if we were attending, I’d be nervous as hell. After all, to the blogging community, I’m a …
The other day I came across a video about Jean Yang, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon who is developing a programming language with built-in security and privacy features. If you want to watch the entire video, which runs for slightly more than two minutes, you can do so here. The short snippet below captures …
Earlier this year, I wrote a post titled, The Ten Things You Need to Do Daily to Become Financially Independent. In case you didn’t read this post, and don’t want to now, here are those ten things. 1. Spend at least 15 minutes cleaning something. 2. Spend at least 15 minutes exercising. 3. Make your …
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