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Either invest full-time or put it on auto-pilot. Its rare to have great success otherwise. The best auto-pilot approach is to decide how much you want to invest each month and then buy that same dollar value each month whether the market is up or down. The technique is called dollar-cost averaging. Over the long-term, [...]
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Managing expenses is hard. Our natural instincts lead us to want more and expenses follow along on the same path. To keep expenses in check, Ive been using a simple question. Whenever Im faced with a potential expense, I ask myself, Is it free? If its free, sure, lets try it. If it isnt free, [...]
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Geologic time, how we chronologically track the back story of earths history, is a real mind bender. Its vastness is unfathomable, really, unless broken down into human terms. My favourite analogy is squishing the planets 4.57 billion-year history into one calendar year. Unicellular life shows up in March, dinosaurs go extinct by Christmas Eve, and [...]
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The editors letter in the most recent issue of Alpinist Magazine (#35) raises some questions about anonymous ascents and the current age of self-promotion. The following post is from an email discussion that Katie and I had prior to her letter. People like us mourning the apparent death of idealism naturally focus on [...]
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It is much harder psychologically to be unsure than to be sure; certainty builds confidence, and confidence reinforces certainty. Yet being overly certain in an uncertain, protean, and ultimately unknowable world is hazardous for investors. To be sure, uncertainty breeds doubt, which can be paralyzing. But uncertainty also motivates diligence, as one pursues the unattainable [...]
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Trying to choose between web developers and not sure how? A quick and easy way to find out is to run the developers own website through Google Pagespeed. Google Pagespeed is a tool that evaluates the performance of web pages according to current best practices. Pagespeed will run tests on any website and spit out [...]
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If someone gave you an Olympic gold medal (that you didnt win), would it be worth more than its melt value? Getting something for free is a thrill, a gift. If you find $20 on the street, its a natural reaction to buy yourself lunch and be excited about it. But what if your parents [...]
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Great websites combine content, speed and usability into powerful solutions to their visitors problems. The combination of all three leads to increased traffic and subsequent revenue for site owners. In addition, content and speed also optimize search engine results, making your site easier to find on the internet. Here are nine ways to improve your [...]
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Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man [...]
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Keywords:
education,
less-famous institutions,
elite degree,
times the education,
$40,000 a year education,
ten times,
year education,
inexpensive resources,
ten times the education,
Seth Godin
Does a $40,000 a year education that comes with an elite degree deliver ten times the education of a cheaper, but no less rigorous, self-generated approach assembled from less-famous institutions and free or inexpensive resources? - Seth Godin on Buying an education or buying a brand?
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