I am a huge fan of Fred Wilson’s AVC blog and have mentioned it a few times here on Financial Slacker. Fred writes about venture capital, technology, and a little bit of everything else. And he’s been posting everyday since 2003 – truly amazing. AVC has often served as inspiration for my own posts. The […]
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Check Out Financial Slacker on Tumblr
Yesterday, I created a Financial Slacker on Tumblr site. You can visit it here – FinancialSlacker.tumblr.com. My intention with Tumblr is to primarily post excerpts from featured FinancialSlacker.com articles. I haven’t spent much time on Tumblr, so I’m not familar with the readers. But one of the great things about running this site is using […]
Launching the Financial Slacker Fund
Along the lines of my crowdsourced thinking article posted yesterday, I would like to start a little test here at Financial Slacker. The question is whether the Financial Slacker community as a group can use crowdsourced thinking to create a fund that will outperform the S&P 500. I’ll set up two accounts with equal funds. […]
Crowdsourced Thinking Leads to Better Answers
Good morning, Financial Slacker readers. As we ease into 2017, one of my initiatives for Financial Slacker is to increase support for others in the community. For this purpose, I am defining community as the readers and commenters on this site. I created Financial Slacker with a goal of helping others make better financial decisions. And part […]
Getting Back to Work on 2017
Hello fellow Financial Slackers. Today’s post is short as I’m taking the day off. I hope everyone had a great finale to the holiday season. We celebrated New Year’s Day with family and finished off the evening by eating our traditional black-eyed peas. Now it’s time to put away your decorations and get back to […]
Don’t Bother Setting A New Year’s Resolution
This quote from sculptor Henry Moore pretty much sums up my view on New Year’s resolutions – “I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.” Henry Moore is an interesting character. He used his natural artistic talent to escape the traditional notions of work. And at the time of his death, Moore […]
