We’re going to switch gears this week and talk about retirement planning a bit again, specifically: pensions. In my prior posts based upon retirement, I touch upon pensions a little bit. Retiring Early, How to Retire Early, Early Retirement is Easy?, and Best Bang for Your Buck Retirement Locations I also briefly mentioned that you should consider pensions when you are Choosing Your First Job However, I didn’t realize that I had not really discussed […]
Attending
What is a DINK? DINK is an acronym which stands for Dual Income No Kids. I had no idea what this meant until a high school friend used it to refer to one of our other high school friends: “Hey, how’s [our other friend] doing?” “Oh, he’s married now. No kids though.” “Oh what!? Couple of DINKs huh?” “…?” He then went on to explain it meant Dual Income No Kids, and I guess it […]
Dual Income No Kids (DINK)
My previous posts about 529s were Finance Fridays posts which can be found here: What is a 529? Choosing a 529 Wait… but today is Whatever Wednesdays… Why are we talking about 529s? Well, you see a colleague and I mine were talking about them yesterday, and I felt it was good discussion. It also helped me to understand how people may view 529s. While its benefits seems “obvious” to me, it is less obvious […]
Let’s Talk About 529s
Today’s topic is kind of only circumferentially related to medicine, and more relates to my past expectations. Also, apologies if the site was loading slowly recently. I think the new Twitter widget was slowing things down. I have since removed it because I feel speed is more important. For those interested in my twitter, you can just click the link at the top. I tend to reply to med students and residents, mostly with GIFs. Thanks to […]
Past, Present and Future Me
So… I made a small mistake. Two posts ago, in Could Index Funds Be Bad?, I said at the end that my next post would be about Actively Managed Funds (Gambling). However, for some reason I decided to make the next post, The Biggest Mistake of Your Life. I’m not sure why this happened. Nonetheless, here is that post:
Actively Managed Funds (Gambling)
So I follow what is happening in startups because I find it fascinating. One of the things I keep coming across is “machine learning” and “artificial intelligence” and their potential to “disrupt” medicine. A recent article talked about this phenomenon in general: “Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming. But Why Now?” – New York Times Here are 90+ Artificial Intelligence Startups in Healthcare So… why now? Well, a lot has happened since the early days of AI. […]