Every ambitious person I know has a dream about making a bunch of money and then putting it into something…
Mixed-Use Land for Tax Efficiency
The aristocratic impulse the last few centuries was to have a city presence, but a country home. The city presence…
Revenue Sharing as Side Income
There are generally three basic ways to earn money: Freelance can either be wages or commissions, depending on if you’re…
How I Saved Money by Using an Amex
There’s a category of “savings” that require some analysis and self-awareness. If you were already going to do it, then…
How Favors Work
Favors are the currency of the well-connected. Favors are informal and unquantifiable. If it was quantifiable, you would charge a…
€1 Houses in Italy
Have you heard about the program in Italy that lets you buy houses for one Euro? Now you know. This…
Highest Salary does not mean Biggest Earner
If you run a business, it doesn’t matter if you’re the highest-paid person in the organization. Here are two scenarios…
If Your Spouse is a non-US Citizen…
Yes, go get ’em that permanent residency card. But you don’t need to rush to citizenship. If you have an…
Opening a Bitcoin Lightning Channel for Yield?
This post is for the Bitcoin maxis. Skip to the bottom to get the straight numbers. Pre-requisites for understanding this…
Growing money and keeping money are two different skill sets
In earlier eras, when wealth was synonymous with land, and “investing” meant buying hard assets like head of cattle instead…
