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This is the working title of my 2nd book. It is based on my 40 years investing in stocks, 25 years in options, 20 years in real estate, and 15 years in private markets. If there is a tool that could be invested in, I have invested in it. At the end, I choose to invest 90% of my own and my family's investable assets in the simplest way possible.

Why American Teens Are So Sad | Employee Performance Vs. Trust | Asset Allocation Drives Returns | The Midlife Unraveling | Who We Spend Time With as We Get Older

Why The Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid | The Evolution of Trust | Scepticism As a Way of Life | Heart of a Tiger | How Strong Is Your Sense of Purpose in Life?

The problem with accepting the standard definition of “Risk” is that it is literally devoid of a critical aspect of personal finance – TIME! When we add time to the analysis of risk, a different risk definition is born. Think of the next 30 years of your own life. What do you want your money to be able to do?

The Pyramid of Leisure | This Is How To Make Emotionally Intelligent Friendships: 2 Secrets From Research | The Man You Should Be Reading | Money Can Buy Happiness (In Variable and Diminishing Quantities) | Drone Footage Shows Everything Going On Inside Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory | Zooming into the Sun with Solar Orbiter

The Flood of '72: Fifty Years Later Podcast | Being Present | Mary Oliver: “I Got Saved by the Beauty of The World” | The Last Time | The Current Thing

Brett Swarts of the Capital Gains Tax Solution Podcast interviews Jonathan DeYoe, author of Mindful Money on "Unlocking Your Money Mindfulness."

We Desperately Need to Disrupt Our Approach to Retirement Saving | A Once Radical Idea to Close the Wealth Gap Is Actually Happening | Low Expectations | The Myths and Reality of Modern Friendship | The Art of Money

Berkeley May Explore Making Reparations to Black Residents | A Startup Is Sucking CO2 From the Sky and Making Diamonds. No More Mining? | The Backpacker’s Trail Calendar: 103 Hikes to Make 2022 Your Best Year Ever | Applying the Practice of Mindfulness to Money Management | Inside the Bubble

In the coming weeks, it is likely that "Recession" will take over the media conversation. Some combination of war, oil price spike, and inverted yield curve will come to be seen as natural predictors. Given current and potential headlines… what should we (goal-focused and planning-driven investors) be doing in our portfolios?

Heuristics That Almost Always Work | Let Your Kids Be Bad at Things | Be Suspicious | Diversification Doesn’t Feel Good, Here’s Why | Principles of Economics, Translated (VIDEO)

Wealth Coach Rocky Lalvani of the Richer Soul: Living a Life on Purpose Podcast interviews Jonathan DeYoe of Mindful Money

How To Want Less | Why You (Probably) Won’t Finish Reading This Story | Get Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable | Public’s Top Priority for 2022: Strengthening the Nation’s Economy | The Best- and Worst-Paying College Majors, Five Years After Graduation

There are two ideas constantly competing for dominance in the world of investing advice – Active vs. Passive. Your outcomes, in terms of investment returns, will probably differ very little based on which side you choose to believe. Your outcomes, in terms of the time spent and anxiety provoked, will differ a great deal.

Black History Month | Reasons to be Cheerful | Empathy Is a Muscle You Build | We’re Seeing a Virtual Repeat of the Dot-Com Crash | The Moral Calculations of a Billionaire

For the first time... I decided to hire a professional to do a comprehensive plan for my family. I wanted to be the client for once. I wanted an objective opinion. I heard the words, which were spoken very clearly and calmly: “You have enough; you’re going to be OK.” But I did not have the capacity to believe them.

How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany | The Case for Vanguard | Simple Heresy | I Am a Meme Now — And So Are You | Opinion: I Read a Week’s Worth of Newspapers from 1921. It Was Comforting How Wrong They Were About What Mattered. | Why More Americans Than Ever are Starting Their Own Businesses

With so many people predicting, some of them will always get it right. The surprise is that when we look at active management, there are fewer who get it right than there should be based on the number of predictions and pure, random chance. The odds are stacked against the prediction of future relative performance.

How to Perform Well Under Pressure | Derek Sivers: Books I’ve Read | Everyone Gets Rejected. Here’s What Our Readers Learned from Their Toughest Ones. | How Much Americans Make