On Saturdays I’m going to list four blog posts that I thought were really good. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. I’m trying to come up with a good name for this series of posts. What do you think of “Friends of the Family”? Is that too cheesy? The Human Side at …
Monthly Archive: April 2012
Apr 27
Lessons Learned: My First Job
Every Friday I post about one of the lessons I’ve learned so far in life, both financial and about life in general. We’ve all learned valuable lessons along life’s journey, sometimes the easy way and sometimes the hard way. Hopefully someone will read what I learned and avoid having to learn the same thing the …
Apr 26
Success Factors
There was an interesting article at CNN Money this morning that talked about the income disparity between households in the top 20% and households in the bottom 20% between two 10-year time periods (1976 to 1986 and 1996 to 2006). Basically, the household income of the top 20% has grown pretty steadily while the household …
Apr 25
The Mini-Max Rule
I remember back in my college sociology class, the professor mentioned something called the “Mini-Max Rule”. It’s practically universal and works something like this: when people are faced with a choice, they tend to make the decision that they believe will minimize their cost and maximize their benefit. This principle is one of the primary …
Apr 24
Being Happy With What You Have
Trent at The Simple Dollar had a very nice post this morning about contentment. Life is full of unlimited wants and desires that we cannot possibly fulfill. We can sit back and feel sorry for ourselves that we can’t have everything we want or we can choose to be happy with what we have. Now, …
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