The past few months have been a nightmare for my budget: not only had I been preparing for a challenging backpacking trip for which I basically wrote myself a blank check, but I have also been preparing to change some critical parts on my car, and have been buying those parts and tools for them […]
Month: September 2020
Why I Don’t Have Investment Property
If you can stay away from loose money and loose women, your chances of success in life are pretty high. Investment property tends to fall in the former category, but tends to attract the latter. That’s a double-whammy of ‘bad decision’. Cheekiness aside, I am absolutely not a fan of investment property. Now, investment property […]
Life Engineering: Stability and Fragility
We have an astronomical number of choices in life, but most of these choices are restricted by culture. Some of these restrictions are good, but many of them are bad. Culture gives us defaults for our expectations, hopes, dreams, and desires, but some of these can lead to great pain and suffering. I’m up for […]
Smart Phones
Oh, smart phones. What have you done to us? I used to have a slight tendency to be one of those self-righteous Luddites who resisted new technologies in defense of the old. I had a flip phone in high school, and I kept this flip phone well into my 20s. For my tunes, I even […]
The Tyranny of Stuff
All the thrift stores seem to have had the same bright idea: “Hey, since there’s a pandemic, let’s limit the hours during which people can bring donations!” I’m no virologist, but I suspect that keeping people inside at the cash register is more dangerous than keeping people outside, typically at great distance from other people […]