Yearly Archives: 2019


Vanguard VPAS or VDAS
Hey everyone, it’s Finance Fridays again. Today is going to be a short post about “Vanguard VPAS or VDAS”. Vanguard VPAS or VDAS? To clarify, we’re going to talk about Vanguard and their version of a financial advisor and Roboadvisor. I’ve talked about Roboadvisors and Vanguard’s financial advisor service called Vanguard Personal Advisor Services (VPAS) in my previous post – Roboadvisors. The long and short of it is that Roboadvisors are fine if you want […]

Vanguard VPAS or VDAS? #illumedati


Future Robot
Hey everyone, it’s Whatever Wednesdays again. Today is mostly just a post for myself to organize my thoughts about a “New Computer”. New Computer? Yea. The computer I am currently using I’ve had since I was a fellow back in late 2012, early 2013. That was 6-7 years ago and it hasn’t been upgraded at all since then. It’s come with me to Rhode Island and then across the United States and some ocean to […]

New Computer #illumedati



Sleep
Hey everyone, it’s Medicine Mondays again. Today is going to be a short post “More on Sleep”. More on Sleep In previous posts, I’ve talked about my Snoring and I even did a follow-up post. I talked about Sleep Hygiene in general before too. For a little while, I felt the little tweaks I was doing was helping. However, at this point I’ve been feeling kind of tired and run-down and basically just not rested. […]

More on Sleep #illumedati


Question
Hey everyone, it’s Finance Fridays again. I’ve talked about “Your Number” and “Different Numbers” but today’s post is going to be about “Your Number” Revisited. This short post is mostly just as a thinking exercise. However, let’s start with some background: I was talking to my contractor on Thursday. He’s still been working on my lanai (deck). He comes and works hard and I always try to bring out some ice cold water for him. […]

“Your Number” Revisited #illumedati



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Hey everyone, it’s Whatever Wednesdays again. Today is just a short post about “Secure Socket Layer (SSL)”. What’s Secure Socket Layer (SSL)? Well, without getting too crazy, it’s just basically another way to help people tell whether a website is legitimate or not. If you look in your URL bar you’ll see something like this: See that little “lock” in front of my website URL of seniorresident.com? That designates that my site has been SSL […]

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) #illumedati


Hey everyone, it’s Medicine Mondays and today I’m going to talk about something relevant to The Match… what to do if you’re “Below Average”. Below Average? Yea. I recently was asked by a friend of a friend about how to approach The Match when you’re “Below Average”. First of all, let’s define what this person meant by “Below Average”. In a general sense, this probably means to the entire “medical student package” meaning your grades […]

Below Average #illumedati #medtwitter