There are two sides to every story. Or, when it comes to the 1950 film, Rashomon, four sides. After its surprise Golden Lion victory at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, Rashomon took the world by storm. The small Japanese film was created by the now-revered director and...
Imagine this: you're in a car leaving town for a lengthy road trip. You reach the highway and push down on your gas pedal to accelerate. You can feel the car picking up speed, but something's missing. There's an eerie silence as the car begins to move faster and...
We all have a worrier inside of us. The objects of our worry seem endless: health, loved ones, career path, investments, social status etc. And to top it off, when we realize we're worrying we berate ourselves for worrying too much. It seems like an endless cycle, in...
Prepare for a hot take: the earth is a sphere. Now that I've lost all the flat-earthers, let me continue. Since the earth is a sphere, we cannot perfectly map its surface. Despite this, we've persisted in translating our three-dimensional world onto a variety of...
In his excellent book, Factfulness, Hans Rosling shares a story that highlights a valuable lesson: Before modern medicine, one of the worst imaginable skin diseases was syphilis. The microbe that caused this disgusting sight and unbearable pain had different names in...
While much of 2018 has been slow and steady, let's remember: the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid over ten percent in two weeks, between January 26th and February 8th. Yes, the drops can happen quickly. The old cliche still works: markets usually climb up the...
People will nod their head in agreement when advisors say things like "Politicians do not control the markets." But people still believe it! So I'm going to tap lightly on a "third rail" of topics we should probably steer clear from - politics! Over my career,...
It's been about a month since I wrote my first post about living with CML, "You'll Be Alright". It's hard for me to write consistently due to a phenomenon known as "chemo brain". In this last month a lot has changed and at the same time a lot hasn't changed....
In the movie A Quiet Place, the story follows the Abbott family. The Abbotts live in a post-apocalyptic world that has been decimated by extraterrestrial creatures who hunt by sound. As we quickly learn in the first few minutes of the film, the family's survival is...
In case you missed it, yesterday Ep. 031 of Living With Money was published. I talked with Christine Benz, Director of Personal Finance at Morningstar. We talked about all things personal finance, and touched on a number of different books/blog posts Christine has...
