Tag Archives: Finance

There are a lot of books out there on personal finance topics, with more getting published each year. Many of them are quite good — for the most part, you won’t go wrong picking up a personal finance book from the bookstore or the library or Amazon (provided you avoid …

There are a lot of books out there on personal finance topics, with more getting published each year. Many of them are quite good — for the most part, you won’t go wrong picking up a personal finance book from the bookstore or the library or Amazon (provided you avoid …

As our oldest child traverses his high school years, I wanted to have a plan in place that would help him begin to take his first steps into managing his own finances so that he didn’t find himself overwhelmed with the changes and unsure how to manage financial responsibility during …

I’m not much of a re-reader of books, but one book I’ve read several times over the years is Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows. The idea behind the book is a simple one. It proposes that there is value in looking at the problems of the world, …

Author’s Blurb: I’ve gone to government school all my life, where my lunch options were never very attractive. Options were limited, not that cheap, and it’s probably safe to say that healthiness was the last thing on the food operators’ minds (cleanliness too, but I don’t even want to think …

Author’s Blurb: I’ve never properly budgeted for anything in my life. My way of saving is just to not spend, and I suppose I have rather good discipline over my financial habits. Even during the MCO, I haven’t been tempted to spend on wants to keep myself happy, I just …

“When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float; and that insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.” – Alan Watts One idea that seems true in many other parts of life but seems to fall …

Dynamics 365, Microsoft’s line of enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management apps, are gaining enhancements intended to aid enterprises in “transforming” their operations. A Dynamics Customer 365 Insights update will bring connectors designed to enrich customer profiles and enable insights with Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft’s cloud analytics service. Both …

We’re going to go down a road for a while that seems to have little to do with personal finance, but bear with me for a while. I think you’ll find the journey interesting. It isn’t very often that I can say with complete seriousness that an article changed my …