Frugal Professor

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches I really liked the Quarterback series, but I’m a sucker for sports documentaries (link). It’s hard not to like Kirk Cousins after watching that show. Relatedly, I learned about Hard Knocks this month. It is also pretty entertaining (link).   Life School started again for … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Steve Levitt (re)interviews Sal Khan on People I Mostly Admire (link). Guy Raz interviews Sal Khan on How I Built This (link). The Finance Buff on: Using Fidelity as a bank (link). I’m still a fan of using the Fidelity brokerage account as my primary … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches A fascinating 45-minute BBC documentary on the doomed Titan submarine, filmed many months prior to the recent disaster (link). The amount of red flags documented within the first 5 minutes of this documentary is astounding. For example, during the filmed expedition one of the thrusters … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Rational Reminder Podcast interviews Burton Malkiel (link). Malkiel is the author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, one of my favorite investing books. Since recently discovering this podcast, I’m going through many of their archived episodes. Some of my favorites so far: Ken French … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Guy Raz interviews OpenAI’s Sam Altman (link). It’s hard to wrap my head around how much the world is about to change. Speaking of AI, I found these 60 Minutes clips to be pretty interesting: Full segment. Bonus segment. Life The end-of-school is always a … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches The Finance Buff on the safety/risks of money market funds in a brokerage account (link). His money market fund guide was great too (link). I found BigERN’s post on SVB to be worth reading (link). BigERN also wrote an interesting “Basics of FIRE” post (link). … Read more