In the beginning of my financial journey, I envisioned retiring around the age of 53. The reason for this odd mile marker choice was that this would be my age when my daughter went off to college. I figured if I retired earlier I would still be bound to my daughter’s school […]
I enjoy perusing the web and reading blog posts and articles that catch my eye. Some of the great posts I have come across I share with my readers through my Grand Rounds series. Sometimes a particular passage in an article is thought provoking and I thought I could highlight/elaborate on it […]
Twenty-four hours! Can I make it? I’ve never gone this long without before. I definitely would not have had the willpower on my own to do this previously. But here I was, forced in a situation where I indeed had to go “cold turkey.” For those unfamiliar with the term “cold turkey,” it […]
Today marks the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As it is women that keep us guys in check and make the world go around, it is important that precautionary steps be taken to ensure that you do not leave prematurely (having the XY component of our population left to our own devices […]
Follow your dreams. If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. We have all heard the above advice, but how does one actually go about doing it? We may find ourselves stuck in the corporate world and only daydreaming of what it would be like to […]
For my regular readers, this post is a lot different from every single post that has previously been published on this site. This difference is not due to the actual content of said post, but rather the timing, and more specifically, when this post was created. You see, all my previously published […]
Well last week I officially became an ex-con, having attended my first FinCon conference. FinCon has become a mecca where financially oriented individuals undergo an annual pilgrimage so that they can be immersed in activities with other like-minded individuals. One of my biggest regrets after starting this blog in April 2018 was […]
Sir Isaac Newton has rightfully taken a place in the pantheon of great scientists. Newton, Galileo and Einstein make up the triumvirate that is the Fathers of Physics. As a great percentage of my livelihood results from the science of physics it would seem odd that I would be blaspheming the one who […]
I would say the vast majority of the time the mission of this blog is to inspire readers with some of my life events, both good and bad, so that you can derive some benefit if you find yourself in a similar position. On very rare occasions the roles can actually be reversed […]
The human brain is a fascinating organ. It essentially functions as a three tier system with most of the basic functions of day to day living handled by the “primitive” hindbrain (brainstem) component. The hindbrain essentially allows the forebrain more bandwidth to perform its higher level functions with greater efficiency by taking […]
