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How To Be Lazy, And Save The World

March 24, 2019

The $1 Billion Dollar Question If you had $1 Billion to give to the charity/cause of your choice, what would you choose? Here are some things you could do: Feed approximately 6,250,000

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Travels

Colombia: Parque Del Cafe

August 22, 2019

How much is coffee part of the culture here in Colombia? Well let’s just say they literally have a coffee theme park, and it’s twice as big as both Disneyland & California Adventure theme

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Knowledge Logging, Principles of Philosophy

Principles of Philosophy #4: Rene Descartes

August 20, 2019

After taking a two year break, I’m back to studying philosophy! Which this one is very personal to me, because Descartes has been my all-time favorite philosopher, and I've been waiting years to

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Colombia: Palomino

August 14, 2019

For the final weekend trip in the July chapter in Colombia, I went to the Caribbean coastal town of Palomino. Since we had to fly there, this trip was relatively more expensive than our previous

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    How To Be a Little Less Lazy, & Save the World

    Nov 10, 2018 No Comment

    I know you’re lazy, but could a little altruism help get you off the couch? Don’t worry, I’m not talking about signing up for a marathon or to do the March of Dimes. This is still pro-lazy,

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    How To Be Lazy & Save The World – Search & Snap

    Nov 05, 2018 No Comment

    Ecosia: https://www.ecosia.org If you’re again stumped by how many teaspoons make a tablespoon, or how many feet are in a mile (why, why do we use such archaic measuring system? Can’t we

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    How to Be Lazy, & Save The World: Series Intro

    Nov 03, 2018 No Comment

    Hello fellow lazy person! So you want to do good, but never seem to do anything about it? Well don’t worry, I’ve put in all the work in to researching different programs and charities so

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  • Knowledge Logging, Perpetual Value Theory, Personal Finance

    The Impact Community Fund: A Concept for Sustainable Giving

    Oct 09, 2018 No Comment

    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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  • Knowledge Logging, Perpetual Value Theory, Personal Finance

    Perpetual Value for Nonprofits

    Oct 07, 2018 No Comment

    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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  • Knowledge Logging, Perpetual Value Theory, Personal Finance

    Microfoundations

    Sep 30, 2018 3 Comments

    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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  • Knowledge Logging, Personal Finance

    Tiered Savings Accounts

    Sep 22, 2018 No Comment

    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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    Running Start Fund Part 2: Concept Demo

    Sep 18, 2018 No Comment

    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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  • Knowledge Logging, Perpetual Value Theory, Personal Finance

    Running Start Fund Part 1: Introduction

    Sep 15, 2018 No Comment

    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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    Methods of Perpetual Value Investing

    Sep 08, 2018 No Comment

    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

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