What to do during money time
What does "working towards your financial goals" even look like? Let's talk about that.
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Debt management: snowflakes, snowballs, and avalanches, oh my!
Mindful of our emotions and biases, let's talk about some approaches to debt management.
The gift of uncertainty
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
"What do you think about Tesla", and other parables on finance
It was a scene straight out of The Graduate.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Engineer Syllogism
We engineers tend to fall to a particularly pernicious form of overconfidence due to the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Wise decisions v. good outcomes
We can maximize our chances of a good outcome, but the fact is that wise decisions and good outcomes don't always go hand-in-hand. This
The tech professional's optimal path to wealth
Since tech professionals are by definition knowledge workers, we tend to be smart people. As smart people, we're subject to the Engineer
Even engineers are irrational
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...
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