Damn, it’s cold
This polar front/Siberian chill/whatever it is is cold. Looking forward to some warmer weather next week.
It’s been a good week for RetireJapan. Our Facebook page likes just went over 1,000, and the mailing list is at 999 🙂
Still incredibly busy in a good way, so without further ado here are this week’s links:
- Bottlenecks in business and life: The Business Production Function: A Framework for Growing Early Stage Ventures
- At the point where two unrelated skills meet: Where Big Leaps Happen
- I like the Buffett one: What We’re Reading
- Circumstances matter: Insert Your Economic Story Here
- The flipside: Wanna Live in an Abandoned House in Japan? Here’s Why It’s Not Really Free
- Seem like reasonable suggestions: U.N. rights committee urges Japan to let children be children
- Damn. A most brutal smackdown from Jeff Bezos (I can’t believe the guy with the naked selfie blackmail plan is actually called Pecker -you couldn’t make it up…): No thank you, Mr. Pecker
- Just save and invest your money, month in, month out: Miss the Worst Days, Miss the Best Days
- Might not matter: Which Currency Should You Pick For Your Diversified Portfolio Of Index Funds?
- Oh, dear: Bitcoin Falls Further Than The Dotcom Crash
- Interesting piece by Philip Brasor: Examining the high price of Japan’s water systems
- Word is bond. Need to work on this: Commitment First Time Management
- Do you need to rethink your investments? Stock Market Counterfactuals
- Fortunately I am happy spending much less than I earn: Budgeting with Cardi B
- So that is why that wasn’t working: IF SELF-DISCIPLINE FEELS DIFFICULT, THEN YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG
- This is counter-intuitive: Why You Don’t Need a Budget
Pretty good this week. Anything you liked in there? I quite enjoyed #1, #7, and #15.
This week I have been reading Brandon Sanderson books. He’s one of my favourite fantasy writers, and incredibly prolific. His signature trait is world-building and unique magic systems. His biggest drawback is that he keeps starting new series before finishing the old ones, so I am now in the middle of half a dozen of his series’, with no end in sight.
- Steelheart: book one of the Reckoners trilogy. Technically Young Adult fiction. Pretty good story. A reread for me.
- Firefight: book two of the Reckoners trilogy. Some great story twists in this one.
- Calamity: book three of the Reckoners trilogy. Just started it. Enjoying it so far.
I’m basically so fried this week that vegging out on YA science fiction/fantasy is about all I can do in my downtime 😉