Category: Life
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Good Debt, Bad Debt
Beau’s Review Jon Hanson’s Good Debt, Bad Debt is a solid personal finance resource both educational and entertaining. The book’s structure is built around several key components: While this book isn’t a magic bullet for financial transformation, it has the potential to make a meaningful impact for those ready to apply its lessons. It’s not…
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Optimizing Tokyo Trains
Imagine this, you’re on vacation… To Japan no less! You’ve made it to Tokyo and it’s time to take your first train; you figure out tickets and step onboard. After scanning left and right, there’s a decision to be made… Where do I sit? After years of rigorous research AKA riding Tokyo trains, I have…
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Conflicting Truths
The world confuses me sometimes. Like most people, I like consistency. I struggle with contradiction. One challenge in life for me has been to accept seemingly contradictory truths. Here are some contradictory truths I’ve been chewing on lately. All We Have Is The Present I think this is reasonable. I believe the past is a…
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I Learned Something Useful At School
How do people make decisions? A gut feeling is a big factor… sometimes the sole decider. Other times, guidance from someone we trust tips the scales. For bigger decisions, a list of pros and cons help us. I advocate for incorporating the idea of expected value (EV) in decision making. What Is Expected Value? Wikipedia…
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My First Japanese Disc Golf Tournament
On November 19, 2023, I played my first Japanese disc golf tournament. It was the 36th Tochigi Championships. I had a blast! I got talked into registering only a couple weeks beforehand and I’m grateful I did – it was my favorite competitive disc golf experience. My Frisbee Background Frisbees have been a part of…
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not always so
11 months ago, I purchased a book. A paper book. A companion for a few months of digital nomading. A companion to educate and entertain. A couple months ago I finished that book. It served me well, both on the road and afterwards while established in Tokyo. So well that I feel compelled to share…
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30ish Days of Pushups – September 2023
For the month of September, I did pushups every day. The motivation for this challenge came largely from when I committed to planking daily in June 2022. I started a 30 day challenge to plank daily where I started with planking for 1 minute and increased the duration as I became stronger. I ended up…
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Prep for Leaving Boulder
It’s 5:37pm on April 19, 2023 and I’m writing my first blog post. Go me! I don’t know why I decided that now is the time to start. I can think of many reasons I should be doing other things such as: Life is wild right now. These days I wake up in my bed…
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