One of my guilty pleasures is reading.
I find myself constantly challenging my own perspective by seeking out new ideas, different approaches, and contrary opinions.
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At least that is what I tell myself as I skim through vast quantities of blog posts, media articles, and academic journals on topics like economics, personal finance, science, technology, and history.
Many bloggers maintain a static blog roll of their favourite writers. The approach I prefer is to present a running log of well written or interesting content I have recently consumed and thought worth sharing.
Interested readers can join me on my quest for knowledge, learning from content I have recently enjoyed. It appears that many of you share this guilty pleasure, as this page of curated content has become the most popular part of { in·deed·a·bly }.
Enjoy!
Articles · Books
Articles
The Financial Risks of the Stories We Love
The workers quitting over return-to-office policies
The Bank's problem is not being independent enough
A Survey of Causal Inference Applications at Netflix
A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!
Weekend reading: a fairy tale ending
The Kafkaesque Housing Scam That's Tearing Through London
Australia election: How climate is making Australia more unliveable
Do we even want to solve housing affordability?
Doubling Down
I lost money in crypto so that you don’t have to!
Trying Too Hard
The drivers of growth risk going into reverse
Data, information and decisions
‘Crypto muggings’: thieves in London target digital investors by taking phones
Three Years of FIRE
Weekend reading: Bonfire of the vanities
The Mind Scribble: Solving the Blank Page Problem
The UK climate refugees who won't leave
A Few Beliefs
A Developer’s Guide to Web Application Architecture
Do you need a plan?
In Search of a Steady State: Inflation, Interest Rates and Value
Weekend reading: Bengen bails on the 4% rule
Digital assets and blockchain technology
Why workers are choosing big pay packets over flexibility
UK garage valued at $2.1m serves up surprising feature
Lessons from the 2022 Berkshire Meeting
When The Stock Market Makes You Cry
The Arc of the Practical Creator
We All Knew This Would Happen
Tokengated Commerce
£450bn and counting - the cost in debt of the pandemic
Bitcoin is not an investment — I’m glad I sold it
The Rich And The Wealthy
Books
Personal finance only contains a half dozen or so key concepts.
This collection of books probably weren’t the first to express an idea, and may not be the best articulation of a concept, but each contributed a valuable lesson relevant to where I was on my own personal finance journey at the time that I read them.
