Financial Geekery

I've changed my services up a bit in order to offer up something more customized!

I've gotten a lot of feedback since Seaborn first launched its buffet of services. Most of it has been, "Great! This is exactly what I...

As any statistician will tell you, just because there's randomness in the system doesn't mean we can't make plans around it. Mor

You've got stock worth a hefty chunk of change...but if you sell, you'll have to pay taxes on the sale. So: what do you do?

Imagine, if you will, navigating at sea in premodern times.

Monte Carlo simulations are one of the cornerstones of what I call "adaptive financial planning". The idea is to keep you on track

It was a scene straight out of The Graduate.

It's been a year since I wrote my post on bitcoin, and now I'm having similar conversations around marijuana. Apparently, some messa

Once you add another human being to the financial mix, things get an order of magnitude more complicated. Here are a couple of strategies th

We engineers tend to fall to a particularly pernicious form of overconfidence due to the Dunning-Kruger Effect.