Soon after registering my car in North Carolina, I received loads of junk mail. Most of the letters said something like: VEHICLE ALERT NOTICE REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION – PLEASE ACT NOW PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL OPEN IMMEDIATELY These letters were from the...
Julius Yego does not have a coach. Not in the traditional sense anyway. He learned how to throw the javelin by watching YouTube videos of great javelin throwers of the past. He won the 2015 world championship and took second in the 2016 Summer Olympics. “I do...
You’ve heard of the band named R.E.M., right? You may have heard their songs Everybody Hurts, Losing My Religion, or Man on the Moon. An R.E.M. song came on the radio the other day. Some people wouldn’t say that the lead singer’s voice is...
Recently, I decided to use Google Drive as a secondary backup for my files. I like the interface and like having things all in one place. I paid for the 1 TB storage option and uploaded over 250 GB of files. Here are a few things I’ve learned during the upload...
If You Can – How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly, by William J. Bernstein: Would you believe me if I told you that there’s an investment strategy that a seven-year-old could understand, will take you fifteen minutes of work per year, outperform 90 percent of...
Junk mail, telemarketing calls, spam – No thank you. I’m providing some information that can help you opt out of most of the spam, etc. that is coming your way. None of this is guaranteed to work. Some companies will not obey the rules and you could also...
I’ve been banking with Wells Fargo for years. I’ve been really happy with them overall. Great customer service, great people, solid iPhone application, account access, services, etc. But when a monthly account fee started popping up, I decided it was time...
I opened a bank account with Key Bank long ago when they offered a free iPod with each new account. I was maybe 13, 14? and pretty excited about the free iPod just for opening the account. $99 worth of free, and as a teenager, it was worth it all the way – and...
Managing finances has occupied a significant amount of my brain power for quite some time. I want to improve the way I manage my finances, and I’d love a tool that would help me do that. I’ve tried Mint.com, budgeting tools, spreadsheets, apps, written...
Several years ago, I launched a WordPress website called Design to Startup, posted 19 articles, then stopped writing there. I decided to post all future articles on this site instead. But I wondered how to move the posts from my old site to this site. I had poured a...
