I think by writing. Often, I’m working through something that doesn’t really fit the focus of my business website (www.pihlfinancialplanning.com) where I tend to focus on retirement planning, tax efficiency, social security, and other retiree-specific issues. This site gets everything else.
Recent Notes:
- What Changed Since the Meditation Retreat? Week One Update
- Losing my mind at my first meditation retreat
- The Family “Success” Story
- Dealing with Your Own Death
- Books Read 2024
- Where The World Is Going
- Stacking Up Mostly Good Days
- Were medieval peasants this lonely?
- It Is Not Good To Be Alone
- Legacy
- Father Francis Chun
- God as a high school art teacher
- Books Read, 2023
- How to find connection and purpose in retirement
- Co-Creation
- The alternative to fear
- Power or Surrender
- Does magic work on money?
- A lesson from “Alice Cooper Golf Monster”
- How much does it cost to drive a car?
- Why I Don’t Like Traditional Budgeting
- The Case for Value Stocks
- What now?
- Freedom to be Frivolous
- Untangling some thoughts on investing
- “Risk isn’t volatility,” except actually, it is
- 2022 Books Read
- Your Best Life in 10 Years (2022 edition)
- How to be happy in the digital age
- 2021 Books Read
- Introduction to the Digital World
- Nicholas’ 2020 Reads
- Nicholas’ Reads of 2019
- How to Start Your Own Podcast
- Talking about Jim Collins with Chris Kiefer
- Conversations Series with Chris Kiefer: Going Into the Woods to Read
- Request: Podcast with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Best Three Books I Read in 2018
- My Reading List for 2019
- Books Finished in 2018
- Simon Erickson – Motley Fool Explorer, Investing in Disruptive Innovation
- Mac Prichard (Mac’s List, Founder)
- Deb Yannariello (503 Uncorked, Founder)
- First Meetup, Success! “Find Your Why” Summary
- The Unconscious Mind
- What Most People Ignore About Exponential Growth
- Lessons from Alex Wilson, Founder of The Hungry Hero
- Lessons from Kate Noreen, Owner of Mudpuddles Toys and Books
- A Lesson From My Barber
- Buffettesque
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended Upon It
- Jon Maroney – Creating opportunities for serendipity
- Jennifer Fox – OTRADI and OBI – Cultivating Bioscience Startups in Oregon
- Celeste Miranda – The Cannabis Marketing Lab
- What Dogs Can Teach Us About Fulfilling Work
- Lorelei Kennedy “You’re Only Ever Ten Breaths Away”
- Reflections on Buffett’s 2017 Letter to Shareholders
- My Imaginary Lunch with Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- What Makes a Wonderful Business? Ask Operators and Entrepreneurs
- Julianne Brands, What to Look for in Founders and Start-Ups
- Dan Whitaker, Angel Investor
- Angel Investing Intro
- Brennan Agranoff, Hoopswagg (Founder)
- Alex Wilson, Chocolate Potato Chip Cookies
- Craig Kulyk, A Good Morning Routine Improves Your Whole Day
- Capital Allocation: It’s Not Quite That Simple
- Linda Weston, Founder of Rapporto and former Exec. Director of Oregon Entrepreneurs Network
- Bill O’Connor’s Talk at Autodesk University
- Bill O’Connor, Founder of The Innovation Genome
- Your Best Life in 10 Years
- Tom Brady, Plastic Technologies Inc
- Value Creating Sectors
- Limiting Beliefs? Holy Shit, I Have a Lot of Them
- Cassandra Farrington, Marijuana Business Daily
- Normalizing Entrepreneurship
- Chris Kiefer, “Riches in Niches”
- Books to Read in 2018
- 2017 Reading List
- Joshua Lisec “The Entrepreneur’s Wordsmith LLC”
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Brett Eichenberger and Jill Remensnyder, Resonance Productions
- Reenst Lesemann, Columbia Power Technologies
- The Only Diet Advice That Works
- Everything is a Learning Experience
- Everyone is Different
- Don’t be bland
- Embracing Non-Doing (or What Happened When I Made Laziness My Goal)
- Books Worth Owning
- Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Brad Pendergraft- If You Want to Change Your Habits, Stop Beating Yourself Up
- Keith Jehnke (Co-Founder of AKS Engineering & Forestry) “If you’re providing a good path, and you’re making decisions that are mostly right, people will follow you.”
- How to Record Phone Interviews for Podcast
- Todd Alsdorf, “The Best Trait of an Entrepreneur is the Ability to Recognize Value” (SSOE Group, formerly CEO of Evergreen Engineering)
- How Interviewing Entrepreneurs Led Me To Think More Like Warren Buffett
- Rania Hoteit, Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur (Founder and CEO of ID4A Technologies)
- Why You Should Have a Side Hustle, with Nick Loper (Founder of Side Hustle Nation and Host of The Side Hustle Show)
- Spinning Your Wheels? Feeling Scatter-brained? Follow This System to Bring Focus Back Into Your Life
- Scam Artist Accidentally Sends Me a Movie Pitch
- Scott McMahon, How to Make Money With Films When Content is Basically Free (Film Trooper Podcast)
- Ehan Kamat (Solemender, Shark Tank Contestant)
- Nick Vago (Clash of Orbs)
- Maddie Kirby (Content Creator)
- How to Create a Facebook Live Call-In Show
- Polly Campbell (Author of “How to Live an Awesome Life: How to Live Well, Do Good, Be Happy”)
- Beven Byrnes (Bridges Middle School)
- Coffee Can Investing
- Jesse Kay (20 Under 20s Podcast) Building a network by giving value
- How to Fill Time Onstage, according to Carl Powers
- The ‘Why Try’ Epiphany, Why I’m In It
- Meb Faber (Cambria Investments)
- Seven Steps to Wealth
- Ranking Your Priorities
- Randall Jahnson (Screenwriter)
- Frugality, Beer, and Happiness
- Burl Mostul (Villa Catalana, Rare Plants Research)
- Sandi Serling (Activating Happy)
- Kris Forzley (Family of Friends, Faithful Friends)
- What People Need vs What People Think They Need
- Suzanne Jauchius (Psychic, Author of “You Know Your Way Home”)
- Geof Beasley (Bella Madrona)
- Assets from Thin Air
- The Name of the Game
- Bailey Patterson (So Simple Shave Ice)
- Alina Blankenship (Falconer, Wings Over Wine, Wildlife Education & Rehabilitation, and Abatement)
- Sheila and Bill Blakeslee (Blakeslee Vineyard Estate)
- Spencer Hill (The Portland Company)
- Jim Clarke (NW Restoration)
- What a Life of Work Can Provide that Early Retirement Can’t
- Taylor Hill (Hill Tax & Consulting)
- Grit (by Angela Duckworth)
- Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (by Robert Coram)
- Carl Powers (Comedian)
- Dax Mason and Lawson Smith (Mason)
- Jared Rallison (Rallison Cellars)
- Useless Attitude: I Don’t Have the “Right” Connections
- Rachel Schoening (Fat Milo’s Family Kitchen)
- Money Is Tool for Tracking Social Debt
- Intro to Useful vs Useless Attitudes
- The Science of Good Cooking (by Cook’s Illustrated)
- The Beatles Go To Hamburg
- Laura Amiton (Healthy Pets NW-Alberta and The Filling Station)
- Matt Price (Cannabliss & Co)
- Everyone Can Become Wealthy (Part 2: So Long as it’s Relative to Their Spending)
- Everyone Can Become Wealthy (Part 1: Counting Your Blessings)
- The Two-Year Drawdown, No Hedge
- The Mt. Everest Question
- Hard Work Works
- Early Retirement Isn’t the Answer
- Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir by Stan Lee
- The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
- Pascal Attar (Ya Hala and Barbur World Foods)
- Ben Dorothy, Cambrian Explosion, Drummer & Singer
- Nikhel Chand (No Balance Productions)
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- Brennan Agranoff, Founder of Hoopswagg
- Kate Noreen (Mudpuddles Toys and Books)