Tag: Paul McCartney

John Friedman Financial’s Statement of Fundamental Principals, Number One: Financial Health Defined

This is a long’ish piece — about 2,400 words. It might take you twenty minutes or more to read it. It might’ve taken me twenty years or more to think it. And it for-sure took me many, many hours to do my best to make it entertaining as well as […]

The 20th Anniversary of the Mosaic Browser and the Beginning of the Mass Commercialization of the Internet: How It Has Affected All of Our Financial Lives

It was twenty years ago today that Sgt. Pep . . . per . . . um . . . Marc Andreesen taught the Internet to play. That’s right: on 11/11/1993, Mosaic 1.0 was set free from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, located within the beautiful confines of the […]

It’s the Least I Could Do — A Meditation on Aging Parents

As many of you know, I am fortunate at the family level in that everyone in my immediate family is still married to the first person they married — something which is not all that common, eh? In my parents’ case, that means they’ve been married to each other for […]

The First Week of January Test, 2013 Version

So how does it feel? How does it feel to be back in the saddle after the holidays? You can think of the way in which this first Monday of the working year hits you as being akin to what happens at the Large Haldron Collider when particles racing close to […]

Roth Accounts: The Most Underused, but Very Useful, Retirement Tool

During the 12/12/12 concert a few nights ago I was double-screening — with the big screen tuned to one of the many networks showing the event and the little screen tuned into my own little slice of the Twitterverse. It’s always interesting to see non-music folks commenting on music. One […]