Author: Philip

I have read several personal finance books now. This book, “Dollars and Sense”, is the next book to be discussed on the ChooseFI podcast’s book club installment.  Although I wouldn’t place it at the very top of my favorite books in this category, I did thoroughly enjoy it. It was similar to Morgan Housel’s “The Psychology of…

I’ve tried many different Bluetooth earbuds lately that cover the price spectrum from around $10 to $250. For the most part, you get what you pay for. I’ve tried Walmart’s onn., JLab, Soundcore, Beats, and Apple brands.  On the cheapest end, I like the $10 onn. Wireless Earphones. They are comfortable with decent audio quality…

It takes a lot more than stuffing envelopes to get rich, but it doesn’t take much more than that and some self-discipline to get yourself out of debt (catastrophic circumstances notwithstanding). link to article

I sometimes wonder when listening to be-bop jazz why the bass player even shows up. 

Tempted to do the Oprah thing and tell a lot of people I interact with to look under their seats:   YOU get a book, and YOU get a book, and YOU get a book! Learned of the book in an interview with the author on an episode of The Art of Manliness podcast. 

I saw this Booz Allen ad on LinkedIn where the person in the foreground with her DoD compliant HP laptop looks longingly from afar at the cool group with their Apple laptops. She’s probably the Accountant.

I decided to upgrade my laptop.  Instead of selecting the base model, or even one that has slightly better specs, I decided to buy a 2023 MacBook Pro with the following options in addition to the amazing display, battery life, and ports that are standard equipment: Apple M2 Max chip 12-core CPU with 8 performance…

I don’t make many YouTube videos because people like Matt D’Avella make them much, much better than I could do.