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Saying Yes To Startup Dreams
A friend called up with a new idea. It will probably only cost a bit of time and effort – and who knows where it will go? I’m honored to be included. New ideas are what we need, and they … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, Dream. Invest. Live., entrepreneur, GERN, HCLE, investing, Liza Loop, LTBH, MVIS, myHarto, personal finance, social media, stocks, vlogbrothers, vsauce, YouTube
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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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Off The Market
See anything different? The For Sale sign is gone. My house, my home, is off the market – for at least a while. Welcome to yet another episode in “Maybe I Get To Keep My House”. After two years of … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, foreclosure, frugal, frugality, HCLE, housing, mortgage, personal finance, real estate, Simple Living, stocks, unemployment
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Googly-eye-ing Disney And Projectors
Smartphones are it! So are tablets. So were laptops. So smartwatches and eyewear and wearable computers shall be. So we can be proud we’re working the trends. You ain’t seen nothing yet, and when the next thing shows up it … Continue reading
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Tagged AAPL, Apple, DIS, Disney, education, goog, Google Glass, Google+, HCLE, investing, Microvision, museums, MVIS, MW2014, personal finance, picoprojector, smartwatch, social media, stocks, STQRY, wearable computers, wearables
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Maybe A Mortgage Modification
Pardon me as I take a sip as I try to decide where to begin. Ah, a homemade herbed vodka martini. Today I get to celebrate, or at least breath a big sigh of relief. Skip any more suspense. I … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, foreclosure, HAMP, HCLE, housing, mortgage, New Road Map, personal finance
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Optimism And Pessimism Dance
Nearly the end of the year. So much to do. So much to review. Past and present bumping into each other as if they are dancing to two different songs. Past wisdom shows signs of relief. Hard work may begin … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, dancing, global climate change, HCLE, health care, housing, income inequity, investing, jobs, mortgage, non-profit, occupy, optimism, personal finance, pessimism, portfolio, stocks, Tiny Houses, unemployment, wealth, wealth inequity
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How Far We Have Come
Spy cameras were probably never this good. Saturday I’ll help teach a class in iPhone Photography, but I’ll take creative license and talk about how to take pictures with tiny cameras. I’ll take license partly because tiny cameras are everywhere, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, economy, education, Facebook, HCLE, inequality, iphone, New Road Map, NRM, photography, photos, social media, teaching
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Poverty Recovery Retirement
Celebrate! This is worth much more than a cupcake. Today I wrote myself a check. The check was the largest I’ve ever written from my business to me. Maybe, maybe, I can convince the mortgage company to renegotiate my mortgage … Continue reading
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Tagged census, consulting, Dream. Invest. Live., entrepreneur, foreclosure, frugal, frugality, HCLE, housing, investing, mortgage, MVIS, New Road Map, personal finance, poverty, recovery, Retirement, Simple Living, stocks, wealth, Whidbey
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Ideally Compromised Optimums
Think you can have it all? We know that isn’t possible. Even Bill Gates plus Warren Buffett can’t buy the world. Think you can do it all? That would be ideal. Imagine an empty to-do list, or a house that … Continue reading
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Tagged aerodynamics, Airplane design, Compromise, debt ceiling, Dream. Invest. Live., foreclosure, frugal, frugality, HCLE, housing, Idealism, Langley, mortgage, New Road Map, occupy, optimize, personal finance, Realism, rocket science, satellites, short sale, shutdown, wealth, Whidbey, writing
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