Top favorite books:
1. Bible/book of Mormon
2. Think and grow rich
3. Rich dad poor dad
4. Atlas of the heart
5. Hunt gather parent
6. Boundaries
7. Antifragile
8. Never split the difference
9. 1984
10. Essentialism/effortless (Greg mckeown)
What would y’all pay to have your yard cut? Or say a typical .2/.3 acre lot in the suburbs?
Or what do you pay?
Or would you pay by the hour?
I was recently out of town for a few weeks and there was a kid whose mom posted about her 15 year old mowing yards, so I took him up on it.
He came over to mow and see the yard once before I left, I do have a half acre lot and use a push mower.
It takes me an hour.
This kid quoted me $100.
I said “that’s pretty high, I was thinking 40-60”
We settled on $75.
He did a good job and all and maybe he or his mower was slower. I clocked him getting it done in an hour 15 but I also saw him take a couple breaks whereas I push straight through.
Still, that’s $60/hour for a kid, more than I make in data analytics currently.
He asked if he could keep mowing and I said he’s too expensive.
I would mow a yard for $30 an hour, but that’s just me
My wife took our youngest to the office with her co-owners today.
Her first day where she showed interest and figured out this trike.
See the bitcoin sticker?
One of the most gratifying things to me is being known as a “finance guy.”
Someone I haven’t talked to in over a year texted me this morning asking about online bank accounts.
This is a person I’ve had dinner with twice maybe and had some limited interaction with at church over the course of a year or so while he did a rotation clerking for a judge in my area.
So not only did I explain some of the features of SoFi, but also some of the risks inherent in traditional banking, BTFP, and sprinkled in owning 1% of a #bitcoin as a starting point.
Sunday thought from “Where are you really going?” - Richard L. Evans
“These minds, these bodies God has given, with their wondrous physical functioning, must last a mortal lifetime—and to impair or dull the senses, or damage their physical functioning, or abuse or fail to care for them—to indulge in body-destroying, mind-dulling, spirit-blighting substances is a foolish, wicked unwisdom. Whatever is not good for man should not be used by man—or done by man.”