Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny. GANDHI My Story I was a terrible baseball card collector as a kid. It wasn’t that I didn’t know which players were good or howContinue reading “Values in Writing”
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Friday Five: Be Kind
Five pieces of (mostly) financial writing and one reason why I recommend reading them. A personal finance pocket book Artistic skill along with writing skill is a powerful combination. Safal Niveshak has got it. Changing one’s mind on FIRE A maxim of effective narrative is the human element. Changing one’s mind is part of theContinue reading “Friday Five: Be Kind”
First Principles Writing
It’s late at night. The words on the screen swirl before your heavy eyes. With each pass, what you wrote sounds worse and worse. A clumsy passage or sentence takes on the appearance of a Gordian Knot. What should be simple and clear is a tangled mess. It doesn’t convey your meaning at all. Suddenly,Continue reading “First Principles Writing”
Friday Five: What Are You Worth?
Five pieces of (mostly) financial writing and one reason why I recommend reading them. How to truly evaluate your wealth As I wrote in my previous blog, creation, whether it is a work of art or a scientific study, is a form of adding to the conversation. Nick Muggiuli’s blog this week is great exampleContinue reading “Friday Five: What Are You Worth?”
Everything’s Been Done
The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. MARK TWAIN Can anything ever be original? Read enough finance articles and you start to have a Groundhog Day experience, as the fundamental principles — spend less thanContinue reading “Everything’s Been Done”
Lessons of an Anonymous Financial Writer
Broke, jobless, with a child on the way — I became a financial writer out of desperation. Some people start writing about money in hopes of becoming a kind of finance guru; some do it in hopes of attracting new clients to their advisory business. I just wanted a paycheck. What I earned though wasContinue reading “Lessons of an Anonymous Financial Writer”
