About

The Author

I, the author, have no externally validated authority to speak on this topic, but that hasn’t stopped other people from talking about it, which means it won’t stop me either. However, I am a person, and I do have to make fiscal decisions on how to spend my time, considering the trade-offs of immediate gratification, pursuing additional education, and figuring out how to mitigate the risk of no longer being able to work before I’m ready to retire.

To answer the follow-up question, this blog is how I am choosing to spend some of my time. The costs to have the website is low enough that it’s a fun lark to keep going.

The Blog

These writings are a combination of “I enjoy talking about personal finances, but literally no one wants to have conversations with someone who’s only talking about money” (not that I blame people for that; I also wouldn’t want to talk to someone who only talks about money) and “I need a hobby”. The entries are not a mechanism to keep myself accountable to some type of behavioral change I’m hoping to achieve and maintain. There is no “hook” where I open my private life up to public consumption in exchange for attention that I hope to sell to advertisers. There is a vague hope of monetizing, but there is also no concrete plan on how that would happen; there is definitely no plan to monetize my personal life.

The blog will aim to share my thoughts and feelings on personal finance and all that may entail. The pieces will be variably researched and intermittently political, but money is political. And politics is grounded in both facts and feelings. Public policy may rely on economics to justify its decisions, but sustaining a choice requires emotional buy-in.

In one sense, this blog is the evolving thoughts, feelings, and beliefs I will have on making sound personal finance decisions. In another sense, this blog is a creative outlet and writing practice. Multiple things can be true at once.