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Youth is the ultimate wealth, and I’m a bit poorer today

08.26.08 Posted in Finances, Personal, Posts by

Today is my 26th birthday. It was a low-key affair, just hanging out and spending a bit of time with my wife before grabbing some dinner. Relaxing. I can’t help but be a little depressed on my birthday…I always feel like I should have accomplished more over the previous year than I did. I just [...]


8 Reasons Why I Want To Be Rich

08.13.08 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Finances, Inspiration, Personal, Posts by

I want to be rich. There, I said it. Ever since I was a kid, I always knew that I would be wealthy one day, and I’ve been steadily moving in that direction ever since. I’ve made a lot of mistakes along the way, learned a lot about myself, and spent a lot of time [...]


Bounteo.com is live

03.08.08 Posted in Blogging, Education, Entrepreneurship, Finances, News, Posts, Real Estate by

About a year ago, I started blogging in earnest about personal finance and investment, as well as the occasional post on personal development.  In April 2007, I started a series about investing for young adults, which took me a bit longer to complete than originally planned (6 months vs. 1 month).  During the process of [...]


Back to regularly scheduled programming

11.17.07 Posted in Blogging, Finances, Posts by

Ok, ok, it’s been awhile since anything has been posted relating to the investing series for young adults.  However, the series has basically been finished, so I’m going to start posting the next installments in the series.  I’ll be moving the series and several other posts to a new site that I’m hoping to get [...]


I dream, therefore I am.

07.29.07 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Inspiration, News, Personal, Posts, Real Estate, Technology by

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. T. E. Lawrence, “The Seven [...]


A Few Favorite Personal Finance Books

01.14.07 Posted in Finances, Posts, Reviews by

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki When I was about 19, this book changed my entire outlook on money and finances. Looking back, and reading through the book now, I see a lot that I disagree with, but it sparked my thinking about how to manage money, and what financial freedom truly means. [...]


Can money buy happiness?

01.11.07 Posted in Finances, Posts by

Everyone always says that money can’t buy happiness. I’ve always liked to say that money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy relief from certain types of misery. Perhaps an example will be helpful. Every time I fly commercially, about the time I’m shuffling through security with my shoes in one hand and my recently-torn-apart [...]


My kids

11.10.06 Posted in Finances, Personal, Posts by

No, I don’t have kids. And barring any unforeseen incidents, I won’t be having kids for awhile. I’ve struggled intensely to explain this to some people, who don’t seem to understand. I love kids. It’ll be awesome to be a father. It would be sad to miss out on such a huge and incredibly rewarding [...]


My Favorite Quote from Fight Club (probably)

10.31.06 Posted in Finances, Inspiration, Posts by

I have only seen more each day to convince me of how true this is. “Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who have ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. An entire generation, pumping gas, waiting tables. Slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing [...]


My thoughts on financial bondage

10.27.06 Posted in Finances, Inspiration, Posts by

I’ve been reading “The Richest Man in Babylon”, a series of financial parables set in the Babylonian era. They’ve been around since the mid-1920′s and convey (very simply) some basic principles of finances and money management. They’re the kind of things we all know, but few of us seem to do. The highlights are the [...]


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