Its been hard to see the other side of saving. When do you stop saving? When is it enough to actually trade savings for... life?

I can see 16 year old me (i.e. the worst) doubling down on my hissy fit if someone told me to “settle my glitter”.

This seems so silly to me.  Don’t tickle kids you don’t know without permission for sure, but your own kids?  Really?  I tickle them, throw them in the air, hug them, kiss them and squeeze them constantly.  As their parent, I already asked my own permission, and the answer was, HELL YES.

What was really hard for me was realizing that each of us has to choose what gives our life meaning. In school every grade, action, assignment has a clear meaning - do this work, get this result. After school, life is meaningless until you attach meaning to something. 

I feel you there.  

answer: Nope!  Any picture you take is not private.  Assume if you take a picture the whole world can see it!

I totally agree! There is no “this is the right way to get your baby to sleep”. There’s lots of techniques to try, and you should try them all en route to what is actually going to work, which is some random combination that no one can predict.   This is also going to change as your child grows, which is happening…

Great point!

Yep, side effects similar to caffeine, sometimes have trouble getting to sleep, sometimes I get jittery.  Sometimes when its fading in the evenings I'm grumpy.  

Talking about salary is important, especially early in your career.  The opportunities to make a jump in salary are few, so its critical you maximize each one.  Knowing the context for what you can ask is absolutely key.  Don’t just randomly ask people at work how much they make, but do ask people you are friends with…

Just like anything its a balance. Sometimes you get to let them go where they need to, gently guiding their leaves towards the sun... and sometimes you have to smack the shit out of them and say grow this way or I’m cutting it off!  I like the gardener metaphor, but you aren’t the gardener you are the sun!  Shine…

Adderall 15mg 1x daily

I have ADHD and am a manager at a tech company. On days I don’t take my medication I get absolutely 0% done. Like on those days even staring at my belly button is a chore. With it, I’m a productive guy that at least has done well enough to be promotive a few times.

Buying a house was crazy stressful. My wife(32f) and I (34m) took basically all of our savings (but not retirement money in 401ks) and put it down as a down payment to get to 20%. The house we got had multiple offers so and the deciding factor was ability to close in 13 days, so having the loan pre-clearance and the…

Money doesn’t make you happy, but it does prevent things that would absolutely make you unhappy. No one who is starving to death is happy, no one who can’t pay rent, or can’t care for their family, or pay for their healthcare is happy. After you have enough money to protect yourself from things that will make you…

As a random American who was invited to a Russian family’s party I totally agree.  The 65 year old hostess greeted me at the door with a shot of vodka, the family was full of talented musicians, philosophers, storytellers, and everyone was drunk out of their minds and entertaining as hell.  It was the kind of…

Not true at all. Tesla had profit of $311.5 million in Q3 of this year.

One thing this is missing is that Tesla is the most shorted stock ever. Even before any “erratic behavior” from Musk, there were lots of institutional investors betting on Tesla failing, and pushing that narrative hard to get the stock lower. All you hear about Tesla is doom and gloom, or FUD (fear, uncertainty,…

One way you can think of it is that life is all work. Your job, your partner, your kids, YOU, your dog, the house... they all need your attention and work. You already spend at least half your time on your job, if any other of those things is important to you, you have to make time work on it also. Your bosses love…

What it comes down to is that your life can be amazing at any age, it can also get amazing at any age. I partied through my whole twenties, and was a worthless (I sure was fun though) 28 year old. I went back to school, finished at 31 and am a productive member of society with a wife, job, kid, house, and take care…