Wallace Wattles is the godfather of the modern self-improvement genre. He wrote The Science of Getting Rich over a hundred years ago, but the concepts are still applicable today. It takes a little getting used to the vocabulary at first. He uses New Age-sounding terms like the “Formless Intelligence,” the “Supreme,” and the “Certain Way.” […]
We All Need to Eat Our Own Dog Food
Everyone wants to be wealthy and beautiful. It’s no coincidence that the most profitable niches in the self-help industry involve becoming rich and more attractive. There are hundreds, if not thousands of gurus online giving advice on how to make more money and look better. Whose advice should you take? The best way is […]
How to Use the The Golden Ratio for Investing
I had always heard and read mentions of a mysterious number called The Golden Ratio, which supposedly can be applied to a whole range of subjects including art, biology, architecture, and even investing. It’s a number very much like Pi or the Fibonacci sequence. I won’t dispute the ratio’s importance in art and architecture […]
Ideas: Child-resistant iPhone Covers
Something is mystifying to kids about iPhones and iPads. They always want to get their hands on one to play with the touchscreen. One button, in particular, is especially tempting to kids, but annoying to parents when they let their children play with their phone. That button is the big round “home” button. There […]
What if: The United States Redrew Its Borders?
Let me admit that I’m a nerd who wonders about some weird things sometimes. Just for fun… What if the United States redrew its borders so that each state had the same population? In 2016, the United States had an estimated population of over 323 million people. That number divided equally among 50 states equals about […]
Top 10 Pulitzer Prize Winning Fiction Books
After watching the 2009 film The Road and being so moved by the realism and bleakness of the movie, I hoped to read the novel someday. Seeing that the novel won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction made me wonder if I was missing out by never reading a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel in my life. There […]