Introducing the great SciFi Author Neal Stephenson and his contributions.
Neal Stephenson Intro
Healthy Heart Investment
Gretchen Reynolds of the New York Times provides scientific evidence that backs my claim from last week – exercise or die slowly.
Invest in Yourself!
Invest in Yourself! Invest in your brain, invest in your health, invest in your future and invest in your fun.
Basic Investing: Risk Alignment
There are rules of thumb for long term investing, but they don’t always fit personal circumstances. How do you know what is right for you?
Substance vs Fun
Reviews typically provide a meager one-dimensional value call that requires you to know the reviewer well to know if you will agree with the review: Two thumbs up for the movie 3 out of 5 stars for the book 91% rating for the video game However, this type of rating seems insufficient when comparing two […]
Memetics – How Ideas Spread
Memetics: The study of how ideas infect the mind and spread from person to person. Critical concept of the 21st Century.
Investing-Today’s Stock Pick (May 2019)
What criteria I used to select between four different stock-buying opportunities today.
Basic Investing: Risk and Return
In a previous blog, we covered different types of investments, but this time let’s talk about Risk versus Return. Risk is the range of uncertainty of gain for an investment combined the likely percentage of the investment you could lose should the investment go bad. Return is the amount of gain one receives for their […]
Quick Thoughts About the Blog
Why are these blogs long?Every time I start a blog, I try to keep it short. Yet, my head is crammed with ideas and to make them understandable to other people, it is necessary to put them into context… and context takes time and definitions. For example, my blog on basic investing started off as […]
Technology Paranoia – Biometrics
Are we sure about Biometrics for Security? I’m not. Partially, it is because I am lazy and don’t want to deal with chasing the new fad that will soon be replaced by another fad. More importantly, I don’t trust the people storing the Biometric data. What are Biometrics? Why should I care? I’m glad you […]