False start, 5-yard penalty. Repeat 3rd down. A quick google search of a personal finance “false start” occurs when overambitious goals, emotional decisions, or lack of preparation lead to abandoned plans, such as creating a hyper-restrictive budget that feels like punishment. Common pitfalls include excessive overspending on non-essentials and failing to create a long-term plan,
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Hi All; I’m back. I’ve been getting better at writing and am managing multiple sites, meaning writing for multiple. Which is helpful for me. So two things. I’m back and I’ll write some life updates soon. When I mean back, I mean I’m back in the Bay Area. In my free time, I wanted to
Working on writing and queuing up some blog posts for ya’ll. Trying to keep this blog mostly about finance, life updates, and obviously the co-mingling of the two. While writing about more tech focused things in a different area or likely a difrerent platorm altogether. The goal is to have my posts be easy to
Oh boy, I guess I didn’t think about the timing on when I was going to write this series. With Thanksgiving festivities now behind us, hopefully we didn’t spend too much on food. That’s what life does though, right? Life throws you curveballs and sometimes it just about the timing. While most of the time,
If you haven’t guessed by now I’m an IT professional in Silicon Valley. Hence, the name of the site. “Being in tech” can usually equate to some sort of new technology, a consumer or enterprise product, or some sort of service. Obviously not everything “tech” falls into those categories but for the sake of this
Since we’re nearing towards the end of 2019. It’s time for some reflection and planning. What I usually use to help remember is my planner. I’ve personally used the passion planner for the last 3 or 4 years. I even tried the full size one once, but shortly switched back to the small typical planner
I know I was M.I.A but hey I’ve been busy living outside the spreadsheet and it gets busy. Heck, I even wrote this blog post last week but have been traveling both for work and for pleasure. I completely forgot to post it. Anyway, busy, outside the spreadsheet and maybe even a little of the
So I’ve just wrapped up a mini experiment week from working remotely in Hawaii. Let me be clear, it wasn’t a vacation, or a typical weekend getaway. The experiment was to work and live remotely. The goal was to go through my regular routine during my regular hours. Although I was in a different timezone,
Random picture from Hawaii. It’s not my place. How long have you been tracking your finances? Before sites like mint, personal capital, and ynab came out, I actually made my own private web application to track my finances. That was 10 years ago. Don’t get it twisted, it didn’t nearly have as many bells and
The next 3 months. Here’s what’s on my agenda for the next three months. You’re probably wondering why I’m writing about this and I’ll tell you. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. -Benjamin Franklin Hawaii In a little over a week is my daughter’s 21st birthday. We’ll be celebrating