Sunday, November 04, 2007

Why Financial Planning is Important

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In 1995, I was working at Pure Software when the company went public. One of the very early engineers said to me that day, "I've a...
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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Highly Concentrated Portfolios: A Case Study

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I know a lot of people with concentrated portfolios. Most of these people don't need my advice. The reason, as laid out in this excellen...

John Doerr Visits Google

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I had the pleasure on Thursday of listening to John Doerr talk about global warming when he visited Google. This was a rehash of his TED tal...

Tax planning II

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Hoisted from the comments, Brad Delong style: i was just thinking about your "tail wagging the dog" thing and wondering if that i...
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Friday, November 02, 2007

Farseer Trilogy

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Over the years, these books' have been staring in my face, daring me to actually read them and me always putting them off because well, ...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Berkeley Hills Ride

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Joining Matt Blain and I at the start was David Reiss and Greg Merritt. Matt went to use the restroom, and we got started because I wanted t...
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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Is it too late to join this hot startup?

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I occasionally get questions like: "Is it too late to make a lot of money by joining company X?" This is very silly, because if yo...
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Review: Acacia Book One: The War Against the Mein

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I was first turned onto Acacia through John Scalzi's blog . In it, he mentioned he had an interview with David Anthony Durham in whic...
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Friday, October 26, 2007

Interview with Paul Krugman

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This is a great interview with Paul Krugman. I think he is one of the best thinkers/political columnists of our generation. He has been righ...
Monday, October 22, 2007

James Lovelock thinks global warming is irreversible

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Lovelock's pessimism mirrors my own. Again and again, we see humans take the easy, convenient solution over the tougher ones. It's e...
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Sailing on the Bay (again)

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An absolutely gorgeous day on the bay yesterday. Stunning visibility. Not too much wind at first, but it picked up at the end. What a lovely...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

Fall Ride

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Pardo, Brian Wickman, Zoran and I met at 9:15 at my place, and rode up McClellan, Stevens Canyon, and then Redwood Gulch. Fall was in full s...
Friday, October 19, 2007

How to be lucky

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This is a great article, and I think it really demystifies the connection between luck, success, and ability. I'll provide a few anecdot...
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Review: Take a Nap! Change your life.

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Sleep is critically important, and Americans are frequently sleep deprived. I know this not just from the scientific studies that are freque...
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Tax Planning and other financial matters

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I do occasionally help people out with financial planning. A surprising number of folks at work seem to already have one (I can't imagin...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

You cannot outsource financial work

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One of my favorite financial bloggers, PFBlog writes about spending 10 hours a year on his taxes despite his employer, Microsoft, paying fo...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

US Productivity Slowing

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People like Paul Graham are big fans of inequality . Reading his essays, one feels like if we could only return to the levels of inequality ...
Sunday, October 14, 2007

Review: Order of the Stick Print Comics

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D&D players have always been insecure. My favorite example is that over in the Enworld Forums , every so often there'll be a thread ...
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1:57:26 for 13.1 miles

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Wow. Its been one year since I started on this journey of "lets see how many events I can do in a year" spree, and this is pretty...
Monday, October 08, 2007

Feeling wealthy

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I've never felt wealthy. Not when I paid cash for my first car back in 1999 (near the height of the internet bubble). The benefit of tha...
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