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This archive will hang around for a bit. You can dance through via the menu on the left, or check out some highlights below:
– The story of my favourite symbol of money idiocy, starring St Paul's Cathedral, prisoners rioting because of being made to eat lobster, and taking fruit for a walk.
– A mind-expanding story about expanding one’s waistline in Vegas with a not-very-subtle application to why we fail to make more of the money in our lives.
– Some super-important topics and some ways people typically approach them idiotically... or dodge the obvious idiocy but caught in clever traps... and what it looks like to act more wisely instead.
Should you be more into bullet points than arguments, some summaries of a bunch of posts at once.
– Covering #1-#9
– Covering #10-#19
– Covering #20-#29
– Covering #30-#39
– Covering #40-#49
– Covering #50-#59
Point and laugh at people doing dumb stuff with money.
Occasionally, I link a few newsletters together because I think an idea is too important not to cover, but too complex to cover in one go. Each post in a series contains a link at the bottom to the next one in that series.
Mapping the two best books I've ever read for understanding the world and how to live within it to how to make the most of your money.
When it comes to using money in a meaningful way, the importance of the numbers, from using price tags as a measure of value, to fretting about growth forecasts, is grossly overblown.
We tend towards tunnel vision on the most misleading numbers (such as an investment-growth forecast, or a retirement ‘number’) while remaining ignorant of the insightful ones (such as the role of the unequivocal accounting record of our life choices in living an examined, wiser, life).
Some numbers, however, are actually helpful. This occasional series highlights the most important numbers for you to know.
(warning: tons of people have said this has most changed how they view the money in their life)
This series is important enough to get . Because paying attention to money with only half a brain is no way to live a whole life. Lesson #5 is a sort-of summary of some key points.
– Mental poisons and their antidote
– An overview of the Four Noble Truths
– The First Noble Truth
– The Second Noble Truth
– Impermanence
– The Third Noble Truth
– The Fourth Noble Truth
– The Eightfold Path and interdependence
– Neuroplasticity
– Meditation: what it isn't
– Meditation: what it is
– Living mindfully with money
– Financial enlightenment
– Financial freedom, part 1
– Financial freedom, part 2
– How to live well, even in a palace
– Denunciation is still attachment
– Addicted to a dream
– Denunciation bad, renunciation good
– Seeing your financial world more clearly
– The overlooked truth of reality that is messing up how you live with money
– Some personal finance puzzles and how not to solve them
– Deep wealth v shallow wealth
– What seeing your financial life more clearly looks like
– The importance of internalising the insights of understanding all investments are gambles
– The secret to successful long-term gambling and its application to choosing investments
– The starting point for choosing investments
– Investment options beyond the basics
– Cost-benefit investing