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Maintaining Sustainability

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Tom Trimbath

What a boring title, Maintenance. Unless you’re an auto mechanic you probably don’t care about maintenance. Maintenance though is the crucial step that allows sustainability. Lifestyles, innovations, relationships, aren’t sustainable unless they can be maintained. Just ask my car and … Continue reading →

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Moderation in Everything

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Tom Trimbath

Moderation in everything, including moderation. There are many folks far more frugal than I. At the other extreme, some investors I know can never have enough. I even know people who embody both. I tend to the middle road, but … Continue reading →

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Pundits Got It Wrong

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Tom Trimbath

In an uncommon move, I’ll start with a passage from my book, Dream. Invest. Live. This is part of one of the case studies in the book, my experience with America Online, their stock, and what the pundits had to … Continue reading →

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Pushing Hurts

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Tom Trimbath

It’s Wednesday morning and time to blog, but I’m frustrated because two of the topics I had in mind are waiting for links to be posted in places and by people that I can’t control. Staring at the screen and … Continue reading →

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Writing Competition

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Tom Trimbath

Hey, for once the title isn’t some clever, yet obtuse word play. This post is actually about a writing competition. Details are below, and have been announced in other places too, but I wanted to spread the word farther. Feel … Continue reading →

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Semi-Annual Exercise

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Tom Trimbath

Investor geeks, dig in. Anyone that wants an insight into how I think, join them. It’s the last day of the year and time for my semi-annual exercise. Don’t worry. This exercise isn’t very sweaty. Twice a year I review … Continue reading →

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TV Less

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Tom Trimbath

On Monday I gave myself a Christmas present. I turned off my TV. More specifically, I canceled my DirecTV service, a satellite that will continue to beam a signal at my house, but that I will ignore and not pay … Continue reading →

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Little Gifts

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Tom Trimbath

Merry Christmas! And yes I do celebrate it despite my ambiguous religious philosophy. The world needs more celebrations, so I’m grabbing them as they go by. When’s Buddha’s birthday? As I’ve aged, matured, gotten older, the pile of presents around … Continue reading →

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From the Middle

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Tom Trimbath

I am a moderate, which in today’s land pundits and opinions is looked upon as boring, non-committal, uncertain, and inconsequential. I like the middle. The middle is where balance is achieved and is the fulcrum for motion. I’ve been called … Continue reading →

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Busy People

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Tom Trimbath

A literary manager who needs to be a bit more selfish and find time for her own writing too, a serial novelist who is great at picking titles and knows her genre, (Hanna Rhys Barnes, author of The Scorpion Moon … Continue reading →

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