Wealth Planning, Life Planning, & Economics
Last week I had put together a curated list of articles that I have been reading or have read over the past few months that focused on Self-Improvement, Career, Continuous Learning, and Investing. This week I am wrapping up this two-part series with a focus on some broad topics which include Wealth Planning, Life Planning, Economics, and a few non-descript articles that I had come across. I hope that you find a few articles within the groups below that spark your interest.
Wealth Planning
- Your Retirement Adviser Will Think of You First (Bloomberg)
- A Deep Dive on Contingency Plans (A Wealth of Common Sense)
- The Pros and Cons of Using a Robot as an Investment Adviser (NYT)
- Pursuing the Right Goals (A Wealth of Common Sense)
- Renovations That Add Value to a Home: Think Shingles, Not Marble (NYT)
- Who needs a will? You do. Here’s why. (The Big Picture)
- Don’t Know Where Your Money Goes? That’s a Problem (WSJ)
- What’s the Right Asset Allocation For Young Investors? (A Wealth of Common Sense)
- 3 Ways to Make Money in the Markets (A Wealth of Common Sense)
- Simple vs Complex (The Reformed Broker)
Life Planning
- How to Raise the Next Mark Zuckerberg (WSJ)
- Three Ways to Think About ‘Is It Worth It?’ (NYT)
- The Money Letter That Every Parent Should Write (NYT)
- A Lottery Lawyer Explains What You Should Do if You Hit the Jackpot (Vice)
- The Downside to Cord-Cutting (NYT)
- 20 cognitive biases that screw up your decisions (Business Insider)
- 5 Things Warren Buffett Does After Work (Entrepreneur)
- To Break a Phone Addiction, Turn Your Screen Gray (The Atlantic)
- The 3 Stages of Failure in Life and Work (And How to Fix Them) (James Clear)
- How to Make It (The Big Picture)
- Kelly Evans of CNBC explains: Why I quit social media (CNBC)
- Why Does Crime Feel Exponentially Higher, When It's Materially Lower? (Econompicdata)
- Facebook Isn’t the Social Network Anymore (Slate)
- Mute Your Commute: The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones (WSJ)
- How Kids Learn Resilience (The Atlantic)
- The Four Burners Theory: The Downside of Work-Life Balance (James Clear)
Economics
- Most Americans Don’t Know About Ride-Sharing and the ‘Gig Economy’ (WSJ)
- Meet the Private Company That Has Changed the Face of the World (Fortune)
- The 99% Got a Raise Last Year, But Not Enough to Dent Rising Inequality (WSJ)
- Is U.S. Manufacturing Really in Decline? (strategy+business)
- Howard Marks: Adjust to Economic Reality (Barron's)
- The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans (The Atlantic)
- If Demographics Are Destiny… (A Wealth of Common Sense)
Other
- The Secret History of Tiger Woods (ESPN)
- Computer Vision Syndrome Affects Millions (NYT)
- There’s No Such Thing as Free Will (The Atlantic)