Financial Update

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Chernobyl, a new five-episode miniseries by HBO, is fantastic (link). It just surpassed Planet Earth 2 (also highly recommended) as the highest rated TV show of all time on IMDB. You can binge watch for free with a 7-day HBO trial. Thought provoking article from … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Mr Money Mustache on our constantly running “Purchase Justification Machines” (link). Interesting Bogleheads thread on fun post-retirement “jobs” (link). Interesting Bogleheads thread in which hundreds of individuals share their career path & whether or not they recommend it (link). The thread really illustrates how diverse … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches GoCurryCraker’s brilliance: On frontloading frugality (link). He makes the case that front-loading frugality increases savings (and investments) early in life which allows compound interest to do its thing, facilitating the loosening of purse strings later in life. I think there is something wrong with me … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Walden on Wheels (link). Ken Ilgunas is an incredibly engaging and hilarious writer. This book is a memoir of his college years in which he accrued $32k of student loans for a worthless degree then clawed his way out of debt through a series of … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches About Time (link). I really enjoyed this movie. I had never heard of it before. Found via Justwatch. Won’t You Be My Neighbor (link). Awesome documentary about Mr. Rogers. Worth watching. Others I’ve talked to think the movie is too slow. I’m convinced that millennials … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches As you have surely heard, Jack Bogle (founder of Vanguard) died a couple of weeks ago. Mr Bogle had a profound effect on my life. It was his Little Sense of Common Sense Investing book that was of the first investing books that I read in my … Read more