Category: investing
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Gift Range Calculator for Fundraising
I wanted to make a clean and easy online gift range calculator for my own fundraising. Then I realized that all of the nonprofits, individuals, and development directors I know who raise donations. So I called up my friend Gab Aguirre (who may well translate my soon-to-be-debut novel into Spanish). He’s an engineer and a…
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3 Books that Define Personal Finance
Another four or five artists last week asked me how I schedule my own personal finance. Truth is, I read a lot and try to implement what I read. For me, there are at least three books that define personal finance: The Millionaire Mind The average millionaire isn’t who you think he is. He’s very unlikely to…
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Making Good Money… in a Shadow Career
Chapter nine in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Once you’ve read The Writer’s Market and come to terms with the good sides…
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A Life of Learning :: Striving for the Striver’s Life
“When am I ever going to use this in real life?” Remember asking that in sophomore Algebra? Here’s the best-kept secret in education: this inevitable question pokes a hole not only in algebra but also in every other subject. Through that hole, a light leaks in from a land much deeper and higher: from a…
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So you want to make money writing…
More and more these days, I get emails from people asking me how they can make money writing. I’ve given different responses over the years, but they all sound similar to this most recent one :: [name redacted], That’s quite the story, my friend. Thanks for sharing. Off the top of my head: Forget about…
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Warren Buffett Stock Picks :: How He Choses
When Warren figures out that a company holds a durable competitive advantage, he will only invest if it makes “business sense” to him. Since you’re buying pieces of a company, he thinks you should see each share as representative of the whole—you should only buy a share if you’d buy the whole company, in other…
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26 Practical Things My Inner Kid Needed to Learn
Often in the course of a week, I find myself thinking, “Man, I wish I’d have known that when I was ten.” I’m jotting down those tidbits that came to mind: 1. Always fill up your gas tank. It took my wife’s habit of creating peace of mind to drill this into my head, but…
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Sitting at the feet of a Seller of Stock Options (finale!)
DISCLAIMER: This is an interview with a friend and should be read as such. For professional investing advice, please consult your personal financial advisor. This interview should in no way be construed as professional investing advice for your personal portfolio. You are responsible for your own money, not me or Greg Hull. Last time, Greg…