Yes!

I'm so glad to see you guys interview someone successful who doesn't start every hyper-productive day at 4 in the morning!

You can actually buy into a conference room and a reception service. Basically, you have no office, but you've purchased access to a nice conference room should you need to schedule a client meeting. You also have a professional manage your calls. Way cheaper.

You can always go back to school. If you're successful, you may not even want to. Look at Mark Zuckerburg, or half of the NBA.

Rockville, MD

Touche.

This is just my opinion, but I think this is one of those things that people are more likely to inflate. Just like you said, people wear overtime like a badge of honor. It's so easy to say- "I've been working 50 hour weeks," when it may only be 45. I suppose I'm cynical, but I'd probably adjust most peoples answers…

I also use a binder clip, but much differently.

I never really thought of a smartphone as a productivity tool. To borrow your example, I carry a Swiss army knife; but if I want to build furniture, carve a turkey, or cut my hair, I'm going to use different tools. If I need to do something in a pinch, I'm glad I have the knife. But it was never the best tool for…

Credit isn't intrinsically bad. Using a credit card offers the consumer several benefits. The most important ones for me are:

Fair enough- the cost argument was in response to your first two sentences: "Cost effective? Oh you mean the most effective way of it costing you money."

I also watch some movies multiple times. And for those, I think there are circumstances where you should just go ahead and buy them. But they have to pass the test. You would need to rent a movie 10+ times to break even on the cost of a new release. In general, I don't think most people watch that many movies 10…

You're right. My response was out of scope of the question. I'm made an assumption that his real goal is to "build an awesome media center" without pirating content. But you're right. Maybe he's got his reasons for owning the content.

Your response is a straw man argument. These are not equivalent.

Why would you want to own a full library? If you're going to do it all honest, the most cost effective thing to do is 1) subscribe to Neflix and/or Amazon Prime and 2) use digital on-demand rentals when you wish to watch something else.

Sorry for the lack of context. This was mean to be a comment reply. I'm still figuring this new system out.

$1,850 a month is right up there for the DC area. At that rate he could be living in a 1 BR apartment in Arlington, Bethesda, or DC.

Yeah. Of course $60,000 is an embarrassment of riches in areas like the midwest. But not so in the metropolitan areas of the east coast or in Southern California. Housing costs are more than double in many cases! The person who said this probably doesn't understand that a $60k mortgage cannot afford the average…

$1,850 a month is right up there for the DC area. At that rate he could be living in a 1 BR apartment in Arlington, Bethesda, or DC.

It's too bad most car keys are bigger and have microchips now. So you can't really fit it into your wallet.