Aside from online shopping and face masks, one of the few areas where Americans are spending more this year is on elections. People across the political spectrum believe that 2020 will be a critical election for the future of our country, and election spending rules aren't what they once were. If one were motivated to donate money toward the ( Read more... )

On Monday we're signing a bunch of documents and an escrow company will move a whole bunch of money around between accounts and we're going to move some essentials into a house and change the locks ( Read more... )

I started reading Paul Graham when he wrote A Plan for Spam, and I wrote a masters' thesis examining several variants on Bayesian spam filtering. He generally writes insightful articles about creating tech startups, in large part because he's a domain expert on startup companies.

Graham's latest essay, on income equality is, however, mostly ( Read more... )

I remember thinking, in 2010, that the stock market was likely to rise for a while after falling precipitously in 2008 and 2009. I also had a significant chunk of cash (earning really low interest) from five years of living below my means. "I should do some research, figure out how to actually buy stocks, and invest a bunch of that cash ( Read more... )

The theory of supply and demand explains that when a resource is more plentiful, market pressures lower the price, but when a resource is in short supply and high demand, prices go up. Apples are cheap, lobsters are expensive ( Read more... )

Ignite Boulder 14 videos are up! You can watch my talk, Money and Other Useful Myths, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WnmVuglpTQ or you can watch the whole event at http://www.youtube.com/igniteboulder/Read more... )

In case anyone's searching for me after my Ignite talk, Money and Other Useful Myths has my slides and some relevant links. If you're reading this before I talk: no peeking!

Update: The talk rocked. Several slides managed to be more succinct than in practice and a lot of folks told me afterward that they really liked my talk (and not all of them ( Read more... )

If you're already a fan of Ignite Boulder, you may have noticed my name on the speaker lineup for Ignite Boulder 14. If you're already a fan, you'll also know you should get your tickets now, because it'll sell out before the event three weeks from now ( Read more... )

Ignite Boulder 14 is March 3rd. Vote for my spark, Money and Other Useful Myths and ese me on stage!

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(Via this Coding Horror blog post):

This video is a fantastic illustration and explanation of motivation and reward. The speaker is Daniel Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. He says that money is a good motivator for mechanical tasks. If you pay people for each pound of tomatoes they pick, they'll pick more ( Read more... )