Get to vs. Got to
This story starts about a year before that photo was taken.I stumbled into my sparsely furnished apartment tired, dirty, and hungry after a long day of hiking. I had moved…
How to think about bear markets
I heard someone smarter than me say on a podcast recently, "We don't react to the events in our lives. We react to our interpretation of those events." He was…
Optimists, pessimists, and realists in life and investing
My last post, Why I am not a Bitcoin investor, sparked a surprisingly positive response both in and out of the comments section - thank you to those who reached…
Why I am not a Bitcoin investor
I have been slow to get on the Bitcoin train. OK, actually I've kept a safe distance and watched that shiny Bitcoin engine gain speed and momentum, hurtling through space,…
Life is like a jar of golf balls
Here is an apocryphal story for you. Its veracity may be questionable, but its impact and utility are not. A university professor enters a classroom full of students carrying a box…
BTSX 2022 mid-year update: a light in the dark
Confidence is one of biggest challenges in investing. Too little and you're paralyzed, impressionable, and ineffective. Too much leads to poor judgment, risky tactics, and devastating outcomes. The worst part…
A cold hard look at buying a house
The dream of home ownership is alive and well. It's such a vibrant dream, in fact, that it can take over common sense and make otherwise intelligent people do very dumb things.
Comparing CPP at 60 vs. 65 vs. 70 . . . The results might surprise you
There are some questions that are difficult for DIY investors to answer themselves. One that comes up fairly frequently when I mentor people who are close to retirement is when…
The dividend trap: what it is and how to avoid it
A reader asks: I’m a 62 year old business owner looking at retirement in the next few years, trying to figure out what kind of portfolio is going to provide…
Making good decisions in wicked environments
We recently decided to move. The short story is that we found and bought the perfect house at a reasonable price and we sold our current house in just four…