The Outlier Model

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If The Outlier Model were a comic…

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Brian / March 28th, 2012 / 2 Comments

And now, a cartoon interlude: The Outlier Model, as summed up by internet comic sensation XKCD! jQuery(window).load(function(){ var s = document.createElement("script"); s.type = "text/javascript"; s.src = "https://moneymade.io/embed/embed.js"; setTimeout(function(){ jQuery('#moneymade-ad-2').append('') jQuery('#moneymade-ad-2').append(s); ...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: be different, The Outlier Model, XKCD

Grocery budget motivation

CF / March 27th, 2012 / 2 Comments

Here’s another round of grocery motivation for you $100/month grocery haters. 😉 As a reminder, Brian and I budget $100 per month per person. This is our second shop of the month, so I took out $100 to spend. Here’s what we got for almost exactly $50: Photo Credit: Original photo by D Sharon Pruitt http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/sets/72157610551917961/ First we hit up...

Posted in: Food and Grocery Tagged with: $100 grocery budget, cheap groceries

Updates March 18 – 24

Brian / March 24th, 2012 / No Comments

CF and I decided to get away for the weekend, so this post comes to you live from Whistler Village! We are currently staking out a Starbucks while we wait for our hotel room to be ready…here’s what we’ve been reading to pass the time: From CF: An excellent long read which touches on the increasing demands placed on workers. I was shocked at how many companies casually implied that...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: early retirement, vacation, whistler

Always give back

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CF / March 22nd, 2012 / No Comments

I strongly believe that it’s important to give back when you have success. Now, I don’t mean give to charity – if you give to charity, you are likely giving a large chunk of your money towards the salaries of administrators rather than to the cause itself. Instead, I mean that you should give back directly to the people and things most important to you – in other words,...

Posted in: Career and Work, Philosophy Tagged with: community awareness, Giving back, networking