One of the reasons I want to live close to my parents is to help with the little things they don’t feel urgency about. Back in 2023,...

In anticipation of investing in some YC Demo Day startups, I transferred $50,000 from my Fidelity brokerage account to my Citibank...

This past Father’s Day, June 21, 2026, I had a choice to make. I could play pickleball from 9am to 12noon at an indoor club called...

Most of us take the safe road. We go to college, get a job, and spend the next 30 years hoping our employer doesn’t one day decide...

Life is hard if you want to outperform average. To reach a USTA 5.0 level in tennis takes an endless amount of practice. To get promoted...

Part of the reason I’ve been writing about distribution and the importance of eventually betting on yourself was to gear myself up...

After graduating from Berkeley’s MBA program in 2006, I wanted to start Financial Samurai. But even after taking entrepreneurship,...

Back in 2012, the year I left banking and three years after I started Financial Samurai, I had a choice: run a lifestyle business or build...

To outperform the masses, we must take more risk than average. One way to do so is to invest in venture capital. However, venture capital...

I get investments wrong all the time. Losing money is part of the game. But after I FIRE’d in 2012, the math changed. With no...