A young, successful reader turns her financial life around and is now building her investment portfolio. Hi Joshua, First off, I thoroughly enjoy reading your blog — I’m sure you hear this statement quite a bit. I stumbled upon your writing originally from About.com probably around a month or so ago. I have been silently…
DetailsI won’t give anything away but, in a general sense, I am beginning to think the writers like using Edith as a punching bag for the sake of keeping the joke going. By Season 5, I expect her to be a paraplegic living in the attic of Downton Abbey after a horrific motor car accident;…
DetailsSeveral years ago, I told you one of my big strategies for achieving things was creating projects, giving them a code name, setting a deadline, and tracking them in Things task management software. At any given time, there are main projects that span several quarters, or in some cases, years, with several sub-projects underneath them.…
DetailsI thought it might be useful to look at another great American enterprise that everyone knows, that has been part of many investor’s portfolio for decades, and is often ignored: The Hershey Company.
DetailsSeveral of the mail bag questions I’ve been getting ask for specific examples of how to look at the world, including the news, through a rational mental model approach. A perfect illustration fell into my lap today so I’m going to group these responses, write this post, and then reply to all of those who…
DetailsIf you are comparing yourself to other people all the time, you’re wasting your mental energy and your emotional reserves. Josh, I read the site and it both encourages and discourages me. You expect us to achieve so much. Don’t you understand that not all of us are you? How are we supposed to do…
DetailsAfter working through several types of bread recipes, I am going to share with you one of the more popular, easier dinner breads we’ve made. It comes from an adaptation of a famous no-knead recipe published in The New York Times. In our tests, it performed very well and requires almost no effort, a handful of ingredients, and can serve as a very easy introduction if you’ve never baked a loaf of bread in your life. It should not be intimidating for you, even if you haven’t turned on an oven in years.
DetailsUpdate: This post originally covered a 25-year investment case study of General Mills. Since I am publishing it a few days into the new year, we can look at an additional year of data (all of fiscal 2012) so I modified the figures and compound annual growth rates to account for that extra year, stretching…
DetailsThis is a mail bag question about the process I use to organize my kitchen and other things in general. Joshua, I love the food posts! I don’t understand how you experiment and find new recipes. What is your process? Tracy V. Like most things in my life, I build a system, adhere to it,…
DetailsThere seems to be a misconception that ragtime music died along with the western saloons and brothels in which it reached its fruition. That isn’t true. If you grew up playing Nintendo, you may not even realize that you are a huge ragtime fan. You know dozens of ragtime hits and hearing them will probably…
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