The asynchronous nature of email has increased productivity by allowing people to send information and ask questions 24 hours, 7 days a week. Long ago, when you had a thought or question, you’d save it up with others until you had the next meeting or phone call with a person, but now you can [...]
The other day, my friends came over to watch the Big Game and I was telling one friend, who has been reading a whole lot of political books from the public library, that I had also just got a new library card and before we knew it, two of my friends were showing us their new library cards with imprinted art designed by local children. ... What I like about the library is that not only is it a great way to save money from books or items you may read/view/use only once, it's also environmentally friendly and you save space.
I was recently talking to a financial advisor at Charles Schwab with a relative and he showed us the emotional stages of an investor:
Image: Charles Schwab
He mentioned that currently, the majority of investors fall in between the panic stage (where small investors dump their holdings) and the capitulation stage (where large investors e.g. funds dump [...]
I’ve learned a lot about personal wealth, especially in the past 21 months. I decided to start this site to share what I’ve learned and about my experiences.
My two friends and I have been hosting a dinner series for our friends and friends of friends called “Dine For Friends” at various restaurants across the Bay Area for over a year. Two weekends ago, for our ninth dinner, we had a mishap with the communication; our dinners normally start at 7pm, but [...]
Almost a year ago, I bought a Roomba for my home. This past weekend, I gave up on it and returned it for the second time (thanks to Costco and their satisfaction guaranteed return policy).
I returned it the first time last December because its side rotating brushes were getting ripped off. I’m guessing [...]
While in Hong Kong, we had booked a tour to the Guangdong Province with a final destination in Shunde for the weekend. It was perfect timing because we had planned to visit family there afterwards, except that on the morning of our planned departure, a typhoon bound for Hong Kong shut down all transportation by [...]
College should be about broadening horizons, academic learning, and social development, not about policing file-sharing.
The entertainment industry already has an oh-so-brilliant aggressive campaign to sues its own customers. Now it has convinced Congress to pass a college funding bill with anti-P2P provisions intact under the guise of several higher education benefits with additional [...]