Mindful Money Blog

Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life | The Most Boring Superpower Ever | The Olive Tree of Vouves, Located In Ano Vouves on the Island of Crete in Greece, Is Over 3,000 Years Old | Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League | Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness | Howard Marks Memo: The Illusion of Knowledge

Americans Are Terrible at Taking Vacations. Why Are U.S. Workers So Bad at Taking Time Off? | The Best of Times | What is Enough? | The Midwit Trap | The Impact of Uncertainty On Investor Behaviour | Identifying Winning Funds Ex Ante: Is It Possible?

Five Lessons from History | How to Avoid the Envy Trap | Counting Another Person’s Money | The Effect of College and University Endowments on Financial Aid, Admissions, and Student Composition | We Don’t Have a Hundred Biases, We Have the Wrong Model | Key US Growth Measures Diverge, Complicating Recession Debate

Clint Robert Murphy of The Pursuit of Learning podcast interviews Jonathan K. DeYoe on how to save, invest, pay off debt, and fund our retirement and goals by creating a lifetime income stream and how to develop a unique financial plan based on our most cherished values.

We know – vividly – what has already happened. We can never know what will come next. The humble recognition of this truth should be the foundation of any long-term investment philosophy. The question is, “Given that we cannot know what comes next, how should we invest?”

Confidence and Validity | “A Good Study” | Camp Kotok: Breaking Reality Tunnels | Achieve Your Goals with Less Grinding | Human Capital: Exploring the Intersection of Psychology and Finance

Neuroscientist: How Caffeine Works and What It Does to Your Body (Video) | Closing Down the Billionaire Factory | Newfound Brain Switch Labels Experiences as Good or Bad | The Uphill Battle Women Still Face in High Finance | Three Things That Stop Us Talking About Money Worries

Leading with heart & boosting the vulnerability even more: Ashanti Branch talks with Jonathan DeYoe about men dealing with fear & anxiety, vulnerability & grief on this episode of Taking Off The Mask.

Cognitive Biases and Brain Biology Help Explain Why Facts Don’t Change Minds | The Secret to Being Lucky | Explore Debates | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Investment Research, Part 5: The Two Razors | Live, Laugh, Life Is Hard! The Ceiling Word Art of Michel de Montaigne

Thinking About Reaching Out to Someone? Science Says Do It | Before You Fly The Nest: Advice For Kids Heading to College | An Ancient Technique Can Improve Your Attention Span | Occam’s – How Buffer Assets Might Be Able to Help Your Retirement | How Much Money Do People Need to Be Happy?

On Sarcasm | Misinformation Is Here To Stay (And That’s OK) | A Flaw in Human Judgment: How Making Decisions Isn’t As Objective As You Think | The Disastrous Record of Celebrity Crypto Endorsements | What Do You Spend Money On? Lessons From Our Clients About Spending that Brings True Joy

Reading The News is the New Smoking | Why Optimists Live Longer Than The Rest Of Us | Mechanical Watch | Good Grief: Reflections on a Dreaded Emotion | The Fundamental Problem for Every Investment Adviser

How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World | How to Be a Little Less Judgmental | Is the World Really Falling Apart, or Does It Just Feel That Way? | History.io: 14 Billion Years | Five Key Findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects

Not Financial Advice. | Compounded Luck | Mentality | The Word of the Year Is: Sophistry | In Praise of Pointless Goals | Lifestyles

How a Massive Refinery Shortage is Contributing to High Gas Prices | The First Global Credit Crisis | 24 Charts That Show We’re (Mostly) Living Better Than Our Parents | Habits That Help You to Get More Done in Less Time | Charles Schwab Modern Wealth Survey 2022

Optimism When All Else Fails | Beach Currents Don’t Have to Be This Deadly | The Best Parenting Advice I’ve Ever Gotten | Hiring and Neurodiversity | Keep It Going | Is Passive Investing A Blatant Lie?

Beauty is around us all the time. Sometimes we can’t see it. Sometimes we won’t let ourselves see it. Beauty, like everything else, is impermanent. It arises, it abides awhile, and it goes. When it goes, it is replaced by a new experience – some will be painful, some will be wonderful. Reality is a river of these experiences, one after another.

One-Third of Americans Making $250,000 Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck: Survey | Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life | The Greatest Privilege We Never Talk About: Beauty | The Best Places to Hike in the US | It’s Time to Throw Out Stereotypes on Aging

Seven Varieties of Stupidity | ‘Everything Is Terrible, but I’m Fine’ | I’m Right, and You’re an Evil Monster | Vanguard Active or Vanguard Passive: Which is Best? | Concealing Volatility

One of the good things about terrible loss is that it opens the heart in ways you cannot predict. No one can handle this alone. We can only handle this sort of loss in community. Human connection is the thing that makes our lives meaningful. Human connection with a shared purpose can make them amazing.