trade-offs

  1. 6 May 2022

    The right ragrets

    The secret isn't living without regrets — it's having the right ones. Most important decisions come down to shades of right, not right versus wrong. Embrace the ragrets.

  2. 4 December 2020

    It’s trade-offs all the way down

    The word "decide" traces back to Latin — "to cut", or to kill. Every decision kills other options you could have taken. Time is scarce. Money is scarce. Even Bill Gates makes trade-offs. It's trade-of…

  3. 12 June 2020

    Retiring early is expensive (and so is private education)

    Every time I run the numbers, the cost of private secondary education stuns me. Retiring early is expensive too. Neither is wrong — just know what you're trading off.

  4. 13 December 2019

    What price a dream

    A personal allegory. On the surface it's about my long-running desire to own a Porsche Cayman. Underneath it's about having a clear-eyed perspective on your goals — the real, annualised cost of the th…

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