Incognito Money Scribe (I.M.S.) is coming to an end. I will keep it live, but will no longer update it with new posts. After a great year and a half, I am sorry to put it to a stop. But I am much more excited about what’s coming next. Tomorrow (2/18/22) I am officially launchingContinue reading “So Long, See You Tomorrow”
Author Archives: Jacob Schroeder
What a 500-Year-Old Saint Taught Me About Money
Here’s a mental tool for improving your relationship with money that I learned from a saint. Money plays a major part in all our lives. Yet, no one really masters it. Even the richest among us are prone to inconceivable financial blunders. You just get a little better at it as time goes on. AContinue reading “What a 500-Year-Old Saint Taught Me About Money”
One Thing to Remember About Improving Your Financial Habits
Tired hands, young and old; tired hands to assemble each plastic piece and screw every tiny screw; tired hands to pull levers and activate conveyor belts; tired hands to pack cardboard boxes and stack containers on steel ships; tired hands to navigate the weathered steering wheel of a semi-truck; tired hands to deliver it toContinue reading “One Thing to Remember About Improving Your Financial Habits”
You Are What You Eat — and Invest
The premise for investing is pretty simple: to grow your money. It’s as simple as the reason for eating: to satisfy your hunger. Yet, choosing from the myriad investments out there can be as confusing as choosing among the thousands of items stocked on grocery store shelves. The fact is not everything is good forContinue reading “You Are What You Eat — and Invest”
No Such Thing as Enough Money
How much money is enough? It’s a philosophical money question that often arises out of discontent. We see someone of substantial means, like a celebrity, live a troubled life. Or, we ourselves experience great fortune yet feel unhappy. It makes us wonder where the finish line is, the point when you can stop striving forContinue reading “No Such Thing as Enough Money”
The Relationship Between Money and Marriage
I love scotch; she hates it. There are many things my wife and I don’t agree on, but money isn’t one of them. We are intentional spenders, buying only what mutually aligns with our needs or values. For instance, disinterested in paying for the trappings of an ostentatious wedding, we tied the knot at NewContinue reading “The Relationship Between Money and Marriage”
More Data ≠ Better Performance
Data, data, everywhere data. Blockin’ out the imagination. Breakin’ my mind. Do this, don’t do that. Can’t you read the data? Here’s one childhood dream of mine that hasn’t died: to dunk a basketball. Just one glorious flush on a rim at regulation height. To realize this dream, I would have to vastly improve myContinue reading “More Data ≠ Better Performance”
Cost vs. Sentimentality
One thing I love about my neighborhood is all the dogs. As anyone with a heart and soul knows, good “boys” and “girls” can make a good neighborhood. Sometimes in the evening, when I and many of my neighbors walk our dogs for the last time of the day, I feel pangs of envy. EachContinue reading “Cost vs. Sentimentality”
You Contain Multitudes, Diversify Accordingly
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large. I contain multitudes.) – Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory. – Ali SmithContinue reading “You Contain Multitudes, Diversify Accordingly”
The Cost of Friendship
An oak tree can grow to 100 feet tall and live for more than 100 years. In a mast year, an oak tree can shed as many as 10,000 acorns, hard little squirrel delicacies raining down dozens of feet on your lawn (or head) like tiny missiles. These are things I learned only after shippingContinue reading “The Cost of Friendship”
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