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How Risk Hides the Uncertainty of Leaving the 9 to 5
Last week, I wrote about my very conservative friend from work, and his views on money, investing, and starting a business. I finished that post with two key ideas: 1) Risk is inversely proportional to knowledge. 2) People use “risk” to hide th...
A $5,000 Tax Refund
Like many taxpayers, my wife and I received our tax refund check from the Internal Revenue Service this past week. The amount of the check was $5,000 even. Now, there are a lot of people who love receiving tax refunds, especially if it’s a ...
YouTube Friday - Q & A About The 4-Hour Workweek
As I normally do for Friday’s post, I was fishing around on YouTube, and I started looking specifically for videos about Tim Ferriss and The 4-Hour Workweek. I found this particular video, which appears to be a home-made holiday question-and ...
Working All Weekend
Last Thursday, I sat in on a conference call with our co-counsel in this case that has gained momentum over the past couple of months. Aside from our co-counsel, Beaker (the nickname for my boss) was present, and so was a more senior associate nam...
The 8-Hour Work Day is a Bunch of Crap
Every day when I’m at work, I try to be as productive as possible. When I get in early in the morning, I’m at my peak production level. I zoom through my assignments and tasks, and I feel unstoppable. But then . . . the 11 o’c...
What You “Do” Isn’t You
One of the great concepts from Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek is the idea that what you do as a job isn’t a reflection of who you are. What You Do Isn’t a Reflection of Who You Are According to Ferriss, too often, a typical conv...
Ridiculous E-mail Requests
I was sitting in my office at work the other day when I get the following e-mail from an associate in another office. Pay particular attention to the words in parentheses: “We are looking for local counsel in Vietnam (with English speaking ca...
10 Signs That You Need To Quit Your Job
Work has been a bit stressful for me lately. Nevertheless, I try to inject some humor into my day whenever I can. I do this by maintaining some sort of perspective while I slave away for the Man. Every job has some absurd and ridiculous demand...
Have You Earned It?
I was in the bathroom the other day at work. One of the partners I have worked for in the past walked in, and we chatted a bit. What transpired is just another humorous example of what’s wrong with employee life and “working for the m...
The 3 a.m. Rule
(This post contains another story about my life as an employee. I thought the last one–Working For The Man–got a good response, so I want to make such stories more regular. I like these stories because they illustrate something more ...
Working For The Man
My “about me” page makes clear that I work for a big firm. I blog part-time, and my aim is to catalogue my investing ideas and strategies here, use this blog as a resource, and then apply these ideas and strategies in an effort to get...
6 Lessons About Passive Income
I have made many references to passive income on this blog. Some people understand what “passive income” is, but others do not. So I think I should define this phrase and talk about it a little bit. 1) What Is Passive Income? Th...
Do You See Scarcity Or Opportunity?
When you look around yourself, what do you see? Some of us see scarcity, and others see opportunity. Unfortunately, that distinction corresponds to the gap between rich people and poor people. But why? Our Surroundings Every day, we experience va...
The Triviality of Hard Work
After reading Alex Shalman’s recent post on John Chow Dot Com, wherein he talks about working less and spending more time with your family, I remembered a great quote from Ronald Reagan related to that idea: “It’s true hard work...
