As I write this article in April 2020 the majority of the world is shutdown and more than 80% of the entire United States is staying at home because of a global pandemic. No one could have seen this coming. We definitely didn’t have any movies coming out foretelling this like: Contagion, Outbreak, or you …
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No One Knows How to Build an Airplane
Recently I was travelling from Florida to New York on a nice new Airbus A320. During the flight I was marveling at the amazing piece of technology that was allowing me to travel hundreds of miles. I thought a lot about how some of the greatest minds of the past would have never conceived of …
How to turn 1 Dollar into 10 Billion?
One single dollar turning into 10 billion? They don’t even have lottery payouts that pay 10 billion. There is no way. What if I told you there were two simple things that would make you rich. What if all you needed was to invest and then….. wait. I mean actually physically wait. That’s it. Invest …
The Money Curve: Using Math to Buy Optimal Happiness
“Money doesn’t buy happiness” they say. Well, they lied. Money absolutely buys happiness – the problem is – it only buys so much. So as you start planning for the future, you need to make sure you have enough money to purchase the optimal amount of happiness. Now to give you a background about myself. …
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September Breakthroughs
Leaves starting to turn color, the temperatures slowly starting to turn cool, and a monumental leap forward in human technology. Fall is here! So why do you come to this blog? It’s probably because you’re a regular dude sipping beer watching your favorite football team break your heart. Perhaps your the regular “dudette” who is …
How will you spend your $256,000 a month?
100 years from now your $4,000 a month budget will be about $256,000. A MONTH. In the last century incomes doubled 6 times or, otherwise stated, an increase of 64 times (2^6=64 for all the geeks out there). Today you are going to have to imagine — how are you going to spend it all? …
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Today’s Breakthroughs 8/25
What happened today? Scientist teleport quantum particles, brains in old rats rejuvenated with stem cells, and major breakthrough in “printing” human organs. You know – just a normal weekend.
Are you getting ZIPF’d?: The era of logarithmic irrelevance
What do how we speak, where we live, evolution, and your favorite jelly bean have in common? All these things follow ZIPF’s law – A discovery by George Zipf, a scientist whom in the early 1900s discovered that every language spoken follows a simple rule. The most common word in that language (i.e “THE” in …
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Who we are?
Either prepare for the new era – or be left behind in its dust. We are two personal finance professionals that worked in a field with regular folks. Just like you and me. The kind of folks that watch 3 hours of tv a day, scroll mindlessly through Facebook and Instagram, chatting with friends about …
The Breakthrough 