Warren Buffett (tag) is the most famous investor ever, head of Berkshire Hathaway and known for his folksy demeanor, common-sense approach to investing (and life) and because every year he writes a letter to the investors in his company.
Category: Money
Personal finance from an optimization habit: early retirement, Roth conversions, credit cards, and the arithmetic behind decisions people usually make by feel.
Mint or Personal Capital… Why bother?
I will share here what I went through deciding whether to go with Mint or Personal Capital. And why do I even keep one of them…
The Seven Dwarfs of Early Retirement
Snow White had a lot to put up with (besides the Witch and the Prince) in this German folk story chronicled by the Brothers Grimm and brought to most of us by a Disney film from 1937 (80 years!)
(In order of appearance:)
Continue reading “The Seven Dwarfs of Early Retirement”I am on Fiverr.com…
…And sometimes I wonder why.
Anywho. I mostly do Excel gigs on Fiverr. Ah, by the way, Fiverr.com is a website and marketplace where freelancers showcase the “gigs” they are prepared to work on. There is some literature about Fiverr on Amazon. You can check what I offer on the top menu on this blog under “Services”, the submenu links to some of the gigs (and clicking “Services” links to my profile on Fiverr).
The Millionaire next door (book review)
I finally finished reading “The Millionaire Next Door” by Thomas Stanley and William Danko. Early this summer at a garage sale in my neighborhood I got a copy of the first original edition from 1996:
And I say “finally finished” because it was hard to go through it, I was a bit disappointed but I still got a few good things out of it (details towards the end). Continue reading “The Millionaire next door (book review)”