“Anyone can run a hundred meters, it’s the next forty-two thousand and two hundred that count.” –Anonymous I am the first to confess that I didn’t exactly have my financial life together in my 20s. I outlived my means when I was in the Army and then started graduate school while still mired in a … Read more

This article is part of a series on personal finance during the coronavirus pandemic. Please check out the Coronavirus and Your Finances Series (link will open in a new window). Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really … Read more

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. –Albert Einstein One of the benefits I have of continuing to serve on boards of portfolio companies is that I get to talk to people who are a lot smarter than me. At a recent dinner, one of the other board members stated that … Read more

This article is part of a series on personal finance during the coronavirus pandemic. Please check out the Coronavirus and Your Finances Series (link will open in a new window). Don’t set yourself on fire trying to keep others warm. –Penny Reid I recently had a reader, “Lyra,” contact me after she read my article … Read more

This article is part of a series on personal finance during the coronavirus pandemic. Please check out the Coronavirus and Your Finances Series (link will open in a new window). There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. –Willa Cather If you lost your job as a result of the … Read more

This article is part of a series on personal finance during the coronavirus pandemic. Please check out the Coronavirus and Your Finances Series (link will open in a new window). My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was work … Read more

“Everyone lives by selling something.” –Robert Louis Stevenson In the previous article, I discussed some of what happened to lead up to having an offer on the table for the company I co-founded. My partner made a better offer than the potential purchasing company had made, leaving me to decide whether or not to take … Read more

This article is part of a series on personal finance during the coronavirus pandemic. Please check out the Coronavirus and Your Finances Series (link will open in a new window). Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it’s not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it’s not … Read more

“With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well, too.” –Yiddish proverb Do you know any Ebenezer Scrooges in your life? The ones who squeeze pennies so tightly that they’re probably creating nuclear fusion? Are you one of those? Or do you go into a store, see a … Read more

“Eat your betting money but don’t bet your eating money.” –Unknown Even though we hit our FIRE (financial independence, retire early) target at the beginning of the year, my Apple News feed seems to think that I am still looking for quick ways to make a buck. I mean…I am…it’s in my blood… Joking aside, … Read more