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 […]
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 […]
Making Better Financial Decisions
One of the benefits of running a site like Financial Slacker is being able to publicly set goals for yourself and then holding yourself accountable for achieving those goals. While the overall mission of Financial Slacker is to help our readers make better financial decisions, throughout the year, I will periodically set specific goals for […]
The Ups and Downs of Blogging
Recently, I’ve seen a number of blogs shut down. Sometimes they formally announce their intention to cease adding new content while other times they just fade away. While it’s a little sad when a blog that you follow drops off, it seems to happen fairly regularly. So all you can do is wish your fellow […]
Writer’s Block? Do This Morning Writing Exercise
If you blog, you’ve probably experienced writer’s block at one time or another. I certainly have and I’m always on the lookout for strategies to deal with the issue. Here’s an article published in Inc Magazine, Do This Morning Writing Exercise to Be Happier and More Creative, presenting such a strategy that might help if you ever suffer from writer’s […]