In October 2023, we upgraded to a larger finished home we didn't need. Three years later, I want to share whether it was worth it, so you can make a better decision if you're tempted to do the same.

At almost 50, I’m never doing a gut remodel again. Everyone who has survived one has the same thousand-yard stare. It’s the look of someone who spent two years arguing about grout color and waiting on ...

I spent about two weeks with Mezzi, the AI investment advisor, putting together my new comprehensive Mezzi review. The deeper I got, the more impressed I was by how much it can do to help you build ...

Once both our children began school full-time in 2024, my wife and I had more breathing room. At least six hours a day of free time. No more wrangling toddlers in the chaos of the early years. I used ...

The other day I made $10 winning a set of tennis at a public park. It was a funny situation because I didn't set out to make money playing tennis. It just happened. I was hitting with my long-time ...

Housing affordability is at a crisis low. You've read that headline a hundred times. Either incomes rise or home prices crash to get back to pre-COVID levels. That's true if you measure a home in ...

The 10-year bond yield is back to about a 20-year high at 4.74%, which put pressure on the S&P 500 all last week. If it wasn’t for stronger-than-expected corporate earnings growth, the S&P 500 would ...

If you are searching for how to invest in the Anthropic IPO, let me share some ideas on how to gain access. The Anthropic IPO will likely be in high demand, so getting allocated IPO shares will likely ...

One of the greatest ironies in personal finance is that the people with the most money sometimes live the most uncomfortably. After spending another summer in Honolulu with my parents, I've been ...

After graduating from Berkeley's MBA program in 2006, I wanted to start Financial Samurai. But even after taking entrepreneurship, marketing, and finance courses, everything I needed to launch a ...

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 is a form of patient capital, and patient capital requires ...

I vividly remember sophomore year of college. It was 10:30pm and I was leaving my girlfriend's apartment by car. Instead of coming to a complete stop at the stop sign, I slowly rolled on through and ...