What is the Value of Time?
We’re all guilty of thinking about it sometimes. The classic scenario is the employee who can choose to either get paid for overtime worked or bank his or her overtime to be taken as time off later. It...
View ArticleRefuse to Choose! – Book Review
When I first started this blog, I talked about how my decision to leave graduate school early and not finish my PhD was partly motivated by my acceptance of the fact that I’m simply not a specialist....
View ArticleWhat Do You Need in Your Cage?
I’m a big fan of a podcast called Radiolab. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, every week they tackle one big concept – like time, sleep, or identity – and they talk about it for about an hour....
View ArticleSeven Reasons for Renting over Buying
Yesterday, I was in my local public library, and I picked up a magazine focused on the local real estate market. One of the articles was written by a couple who had recently sold their house in the...
View ArticleHow to Deal with a Bad Landlord
A few weeks ago I posted about some of the reasons why renting may be a better option for some than buying a home. There’s one big reason though why buying can be better than renting – the bad...
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