After publishing The Untold Burden Of Being Your Family's Financial Provider, I got this comment from a reader named Brian: “I can identify with this post as I am the family CFO / CIO. I think you are WAY overcomplicating this. What is wrong with merely investing in VTI / VXUS and chill? My returns have […]
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Something funny happened after I spent $3,000 fixing up my 2015 Range Rover Sport. A 2026 Range Rover Sport in the same black on black with 905 miles became available. It was the perfect setup, because buying a brand new car is a serious waste of money. When you're the family's financial provider, your goal […]
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This summer I toured a couple of 6,000 to 7,000 square foot mansion in the Kahala neighborhood of Honolulu, all in preparation for a potential move in two or three years. We plan to move back for either 6th or 7th grade for our son and 3rd or 4th grade for our daughter, so we […]
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On August 5, chief AI scientist Jeff Dean announced he was leaving Google after 27 years. Google proceeded to lose ~$180 billion in market cap, making this the largest impact I've ever seen by one employee departing. He's co-founding Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation aimed at using AI to automate the scientific research process […]
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On August 6, the first tranche of locked-up SpaceX shares was released. Roughly 911.5 million shares became eligible to trade in a single session. SPCX went up 6%. Then it went up again the next day, closing out a two-day gain of about 11% on the exact event everybody had circled on their calendar as […]
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According to an Indeed Hiring Lab analysis, women now hold more payroll jobs than men in America. It's only the third time this has ever happened. The first two times, during the Great Recession and just before COVID, the gap snapped back once construction and manufacturing started hiring again. This time looks different. Between February […]
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