Personal blog on early retirement and analytics projects. I write about what I learn as I am learning it.
“How many days in five months” is a very strange question to write a post about but I am learning about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). And using Ahrefs keyword research tool I found out the question is a very good keyword to target. At the end, I explain how to calculate it using Excel (or any spreadsheet).
This is what Google tells us:
The premise of “Die with Zero” sounds provocative: Bill Perkins argues you should plan to spend all your money before you die, optimizing for maximum life experiences rather than maximum wealth at death. Not “die debt-free” — that’s a different book. Perkins is talking about people who will almost certainly die with millions in unspent savings because they never gave themselves permission to spend it on things that actually mattered while they were healthy enough to enjoy them. The title is deliberately extreme. The actual argument is more nuanced than it sounds.
I picked it up because I’m interested in the other end of the FIRE question — not just how to achieve financial independence, but what to actually do with it.
Linear programming is a mathematical method that is used to optimize the allocation of resources. It can be applied to a wide range of problems, such as maximizing profits or minimizing costs. One of the key concepts in linear programming is the shadow price, which can be used to determine how a change in one of the constraints of a linear programming problem affects the optimal solution.
Fair warning: I wrote this post after a genuinely frustrating afternoon dealing with Vanguard. I’ve kept it up because the complaints are real and I still hear them constantly from other investors. Take the title at face value—it’s rant-y—but stay for the part where I acknowledge what they actually do well, because that part is also true.
Continue reading “Vanguard Sucks”Maradona died a few days ago and I was surprised by how sad the news made me. He was the best soccer player of his generation, and then some. One of the best ever, if not the best.
He had a long career on and off the field and many ups and downs in both. He ran into trouble several times because he was a rebel and disliked authority very much (hmm I just discovered one thing we had in common). I am not a soccer expert (heck, I am not an expert at anything, I am kind of lost after all) but I drew two lessons from all the memories I just reminisced about in the last couple of days and all the comments I heard and read.
