Financial Geekery

Since tech professionals are by definition knowledge workers, we tend to be smart people. As smart people, we're subject to the Engineer

John Oliver's bit on financial advisors is an excellent (and hysterical) segment, and he hits the nail on the head: the term "finan

As engineers, one of our greatest weaknesses is a blindness to our own irrationality. We tend to think that we view the world through a uniquely analytical lens, and are immune to the cognitive biases that plague humanity. Nope, nope, nope. Moreover, our cognitive biases -- which evolved to be helpful in 90% of the situations we find ourselves in -- are often actively detrimental to our financial success. (Our intuition tells us to "get out of the market while it's volatile,

So how much volatility are you capable of taking on in exchange for higher returns? How much volatility are you willing to take on? The firs