For the past year, I’ve been conducting a small set of experiments on myself and my finances. It’s part of a concept I’ve been developing that I’ve been calling “Perpetual Value,” where
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A Not So Simple $12 Donation Last Friday was a special little moment for me. I got to make a small donation of $12 to Charity: Water. While a donation to this organization is not anything new
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So far in this series, I’ve been sharing information about what other organizations are doing that you can connect with to make a positive impact, while requiring minimal effort on your end. Today
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I have another strange idea: what if there was some kind of mutual fund that took the capital gains and used that to fund community projects? What if we could pool our resources together; grow the
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When I first started exploring the concept of a microfoundation, the idea was to create perpetual value for donations so that individuals can stretch the impact their contributions could make. As I
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In my first post about the perpetual value method, I mentioned that it was actually a spinoff of another budding concept I was working on. After reading up on the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, I
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For being a finance nerd, I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that savings has always been a confusing subject for me. In my mind, there are three financial buckets that I can understand putting my
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My previous post proposed a crazy idea that what we should be doing to help new investors is giving them $50,000 to start off with. Even though this is a long shot, how could a system be put into
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If my Perpetual Value Theory hasn’t been debunked yet, then I would like to venture into even more ambitious waters. This concept that I’ve been working on has been to find alternative
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I’ve been using a model that assumes static wages over 30 years, and while that is unrealistic, it is useful to observe the how one’s financial status changes due to the investing strategy and