The Monday Read

Back to school edition

Well, my granddaughter goes back to school tomorrow, and my uni classes start up again too. Kind of bittersweet: looking forward to the new academic year but a little sad to be busy again 🙂

Here are this week’s links

  1. If you are feeling weak, worthless, weary, you may need help: Depression In Japan: Reaching Out When Things Are ‘Not OK’
  2. I don’t usually bother with regrets either -learn what you can and move on: How to Make 1000 Mistakes a Day and Still be Happy
  3. MMM with an April Fool’s deeper point: How I Sold This Website for $9 Million
  4. I’m definitely in the stock market camp: Real Estate vs. The Stock Market
  5. I like these information buckets: Different kinds of information
  6. Maybe Japan has it right with women being in charge of the family finances: Are women better investors than men?
  7. Ignore the noise, head down, stick to the plan: Fees vs fines
  8. NOTHING. Nothing is safe.
  9. I think I have four or five of these… You can have two Big Things, but not three
  10. Marketing, summarised: Why Nobody Buys Your Shit: The 3 Laws of Marketing
  11. Not great. Hope the sector ends up better regulated and run: What happens to residents when an old age home goes bankrupt?
  12. I think about this sometimes: if we never see and never spend our wealth, does it matter if it exists? Wealth Is All In Your Head
  13. Ray Dalio thinks capitalism is broken (echoes of Pikkety?): WHY AND HOW CAPITALISM NEEDS TO BE REFORMED
  14. This is wonderful: You could have today, instead you choose tomorrow

Anything good in there? #14 is definitely my favourite this week.

4 Responses

  1. #4–I like the perspective that this analogy illustrates:

    “The authors of the study were also comparing the entire global data set of homes in existence. To suggest their data should lead you to conclude that owning your own home is as good of a bet as investing in the overall stock market would be like looking at the overarching history of stock market returns only to conclude that buying a single company could give you a similar outcome.”

  2. Thank you for this website and the Monday Read. Thanks to you, I’m belatedly getting my finances sorted to the stage where I don’t wake up sweating wondering what the hell I’m going to do to get by in my golden years. Not that I’ve got everything sorted, just that, thanks to your project, I’ve got a roadmap that makes sense and I know won’t steer me far wrong. And I also thought no. 14 was wonderful. Carry on.

    1. Thanks! That’s all any of us can hope for methinks -being aware of our finances, having a plan, and taking practical steps towards our goals. Life will get in the way, but as long as we keep an eye on things and update the plan as necessary we should be okay 🙂