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Popular Posts 2022
Another year. Another period of posting; but the ten most popular posts are all from before 2022. Why? MicroVision. MicroVision’s 2021 was such a story that it dominated this blogs traffic, including previous years’ MicroVision posts as people researched the … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, health care, health insurance, healthcare, HoloLens, housing, inventions, investing, Mental Health, Microvision, MVIS, ObamaCare, personal finance, Re-retirement, real estate, real estate broker, Retirement, stocks, sustainability, tidal power
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Semi Annual Exercise EOY 2022
Semi Annual Exercise EOY 2022 For those who have never encountered my semi-annual portfolio exercise I’ll quote myself. “Here’s my semi-annual exercise to see if I remember why I own the stocks I own, and so I can check back … Continue reading
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Cars Cameras Computers Change
Hunting for safe conversation topics for the holidays? It’s been a weird year, but maybe too weird with too many controversies. The holidays are about tradition, remembering supposedly simpler times. Simpler or not, change is happening. Arguably change is accelerating. … Continue reading
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Tagged cameras, cars, computers, digital singularity, driveless cars, electric cars, future, history, Kodak, pollution, prognostication, Tesla
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AMSC – One Company One Story
Welcome to another story and another video in my One Company One Story series.This time, AMSC (previously known as American Superconductor). Here comes the amateur legalese. I began investing in companies and their stocks in the late 70s, but am … Continue reading
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Tagged American Superconductor, AMSC, Dream. Invest. Live., investing, personal finance, stocks, superconductor
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R Is For Retirement
Let’s take that phrase and see where it leads us, or at least leads me, because the topic of retirement has been part of a few conversations lately. Wishful thinking? Presenting one’s self with the ultimate present? A necessary next … Continue reading
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Tagged Dream. Invest. Live., health, health care, personal finance, real estate broker, Retirement
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2040-ish
It is funny how things happen. Actually, we need a new phrase because a coincidence of topics recently arrived that I find thoughtful, but not funny. My sci-fi novel, Firewatcher, is set at least a couple of decades from now. … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, assumptions, digital singularity, Dream. Invest. Live., Earth Overshoot Day, economy, finance, Firewatcher, government, investing, mortgage, MVIS, overpopulation, personal finance, Pretending Not To Panic, stocks, sustainability, wealth
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What About Twitter
Social media is a time sink. Time is precious, so social media requires spending something precious. People are precious, too; and connecting with them can be one of the best ways to spend a life. And then, Twitter hit the … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, klout, LinkedIn, Pinterest, reddit, social media, time, Tumblr, Twitter
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ElectraMeccanica – One Company One story
Welcome to another story and another video in my One Company One Story series. Here comes the amateur legalese. I began investing in companies and their stocks in the late 70s, but am not a certified investment professional. My style … Continue reading
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Tagged Dream. Invest. Live., ElectraMeccanica, investing, personal finance, SOLO, stocks
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Eighty Hour Outage
For about 80 hours my house didn’t have electricity, at least the organized kind from the electric company. One short, intense windstorm did it. As it passed through it blew open my kitchen door. I got out of bed to … Continue reading
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Tagged emergency preparedness, frugal, frugal folk, frugality, resourcefulness, Whidbey Island
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Stepping Towards Re-Retirement
Post-publishing note: As of November 1, 2022 I am no longer a real estate broker. My real estate sites temporarily lead here. At least temporarily, those sites will be for sale: WhidbeyRealtor.com WhidbeyRealtor.net MyWhidbeyRealtor.com MyWhidbeyRealtor.net . This post describes why … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycling, dancing, Firewatcher, frugal, health care, healthcare, hiking, Mental Health, real estate, real estate broker, reretirement, Retirement, screenplay, screenwriting, skiing, snowshoeing, Whidbey Island
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