Alan Johnson
Against my better judgment, I gave the solar sales guy at Home Depot my contact info. I’m glad I did, because it eventually led to me finding a deal from another company that will cut my electric bill in half. I can’t claim victory because I haven’t signed the deal, let alone seen the end...
Alan Johnson
For a few brief moments, my stock holdings in my former employer were hypothetically worth $5 million. This is the wild story of how I realized less than 1% of that value. I’ll be pretty specific about some of the numbers, because equity compensation is a mystery to most people. Until I went...
aharoni
It sometimes happens in people’s lives that someone tells them something that sounds true and obvious at the time. It turns out that it actually is objectively true, and it is also obvious, or at least sensible, to the person who hears it, but it’s not obvious to other people. But it was obvious...
Adam
I wrote in August 2010 (nine years ago!) about a product called the “money-band,” which was a cutting-edge elastic fastener (OK—household rubber band) marketed for the use of replacing the traditional bi or trifold wallet. I was enamored at the time by the idea of minimalism—and I guess I still...