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The End of FIRE

The End of FIRE

One of my more popular blog posts here still getting regular Google search traffic is building a financial spreadsheet. I put it together to answer the question "how much can I safely spend any given month, and what should…

Review: You Are a Badass at Making Money

Review: You Are a Badass at Making Money

I'm not sure why I started reading You're a Badass at Making Money. I mean, I saw someone mention they were reading it on my Twitter feed, and Amazon's reviews as well as Goodreads…

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Revisiting the Square IPO

Revisiting the Square IPO

Unicorns are overvalued.The general trend was obvious for a while: the emergence a glut of companies just clearing the $1 billion valuation mark with special conditions, funds downgrading or writing off their private company shares, and a run tech…

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I Built my own Financial Planning Spreadsheet

I Built my own Financial Planning Spreadsheet

I'm a personal finance geek. Starting with Mint and their budgeting tools and having moved on to Personal Capital for their investment tracking, I appreciate understanding where my money is coming and going, both in terms of "…

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A Counsyl Retrospective

A Counsyl Retrospective

It started when I was thinking about how technology has failed. Or, to be more accurate, where it has failed. Post-Square, I had approached my job hunt slightly differently than in years past. Opportunity and role were still the…

Citibank's Terrible, Customer-Hostile Security Measures

This is going to be a rant about how horrible Citibank's customer experience is, particularly around their security measures that's meant to protect their users. I'm still in disbelief on how misguided their systems…