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Author Archives: Tom Trimbath
Full Speed Days
Ironies abound. Here I am, blogging about balancing life and money, wrote a book about it (Dream. Invest. Live.), am a case study in another one (Your Money or Your Life), and I’m launching into the last task of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal, Just Keep Pedaling, mortgage, personal finance, writing, YMOYL, Your Money or Your Life
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Trends Shifting Stalwarts
Conventional wisdom held that investing in the stalwarts, the old blue chips, was the way to safely invest. Dull but successful. The market continues to hit new highs, mostly through the action of the biggest companies, that are more a … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, banking, bitcoin, climate change, cryptocurrencies, debt, decentralized, futurist, GERN, GIG, housing, investing, millennials, mortgage, MVIS, off the grid, off-grid, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, personal finance, Retirement, RGSE, singularity, stocks, tiny house, Tiny Houses, urbanization
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I Think I Accept Bitcoins
I gave up trying to buy a BitCoin. I got a wallet instead; and I’m glad, even though it is empty. Welcome to the land of cryptocurrencies where of course you need a cryptowallet for your cryptocoins. Cryptocurrencies are intriguing. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, auroracoin, bitcoin, consulting, cryptocurrency, Dogecoin, entrepreneur, Iceland, Kris Krug, MazaCoin, personal finance, photos, potcoin, Whidbey
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Corporations Meet Owners MVIS 2014
People crave stories, poems, plays on words. Analysts crave data. Investors deal in both. Investors in startups have so little data to pick from that investing becomes speculating. When words are the main source of information, it is best to … Continue reading
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Tagged Individual investor, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, personal finance, stocks, wealth
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Fresh Idea – Creepy Crawly Barrier
Fresh ideas, inventions that I pass along to the world. Maybe they already exist. Maybe they’re useful. Maybe they’re fun. As I type this, my neighborhood is experiencing our local version of biblical locusts. Our current scourge? Tent caterpillars. Tent … Continue reading
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Tagged caterpillars, entrepreneur, fresh idea, invention, organic, pests, Simple Living, slugs, Whidbey
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Sustaining Small Town Charity
They are among us, and that is good. The things that are closest to us are easiest to overlook. Where I live the economy continues along uncertainly. Some businesses are thriving. Others are shuttering. Many live on a knife edge. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boomers, Charity, Clinton, Coupeville, entrepreneur, Freeland, Greenbank, inheritance, jobs, Langley, library, millenials, non-profit, Oak Harbor, philanthropy, Sno-Isle, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey
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Society Accidentally Diversifies
Us versus Them. That’s a familiar theme; yet we know there are grey areas between the two. Finance is the same. There are “The Big Institutions” and “the rest of Us.” Alternative economies try to make clear distinctions, but if … Continue reading
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Tagged AirBnB, banks, BerkShares, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, economy, finance, investing, Kiva, LendingClub, Lyft, MazaCoin, microloans, occupy, peer lending, peer-to-peer, personal finance, sharing economy, stocks, Wall Street
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Chromebook Disruption
Chromebooks are the answer, but don’t ask too many questions. Four months ago I bought a Chromebook (Unwrapping My Chromebook). Despite the inevitable complaints I’m about to list, I’m convinced that Chromebooks are going to usurp the laptop the way … Continue reading
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Tagged AAPL, Apple, Chromebook, Google+, investing, laptop, Microsoft, MSFT, PC, personal finance, Simple Living, stocks
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Adaptation And AAM2014
Have you ever spent four full days thinking about museums? Most people think about museums for a few hours every year, yet museum folks necessarily think about them every day. Me, I think about them about three or four hours … Continue reading
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Tagged AAM, AAM2014, community, Dream. Invest. Live., Financial Integrity, HCLE, housing, investing, jobs, mortgage, museums, New Road Map, NRM, personal finance, real estate, Seattle, sharing economy, stocks, Twitter, virtual museum
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Hope From Potatoes
The second most asked question in my life recently has been, “How do you manage to stay so upbeat?” An interesting balance to the most asked question which is, “So, how are you doing – really?” Financial turmoil publicly played … Continue reading
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Tagged bunnies, carrot, carrots, caterpillars, deer, entrepreneur, foreclosure, frugal, frugality, gardening, mortgage, onion, onions, potato, potatoes, Simple Living, slugs, snails
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