I wish I had known this wisdom when I started out investing. I fell into get-rich commodity trading schemes and lost my shirt.

Hey there, fellow coin enthusiasts and history buffs! I’m here to share with you my passion for collecting ancient Roman coins and to take you on a journey through the ages with these metallic pieces of history. Imagine holding a piece of the Roman Empire right in the palm of your hand—feeling the weight of centuries of stories, triumphs, and even mysteries. That’s the thrill of collecting ancient Roman coins. Read more...

It’s no secret that I don’t like Bitcoin but the Gold Standard has its problems too. Here’s a comparison of the gold standard vs bitcoin. The Gold Standard and Bitcoin are two financial systems that have gained widespread attention in recent years. While they share similarities in that they both offer a form of decentralized currency, there are significant differences between the two systems. Here’s a closer look at the pros and cons of the Gold Standard versus Bitcoin. Read more...

Trading Gold and Silver isn’t hard but you need a lot of cash to do so. The best thing to do, IMHO (and what do I know) is to buy American Eagles. Then hoard them and watch the charts. If you squint at the following gold and silver charts you can see exactly where the support and resistance price levels are. The coin dealer knows this and will adjust his/her spreads accordingly. Read more...

A good tutorial on how do advanced sentiment analysis. The goal of this project was to predict sentiment for the given Twitter post using Python. Sentiment analysis can predict many different emotions attached to the text, but in this report only 3 major were considered: positive, negative and neutral. The training dataset was small (just over 5900 examples) and the data within it was highly skewed, which greatly impacted on the difficulty of building good classifier. Read more...

While I don’t share their plight and I’m struggling to not to say “stop spending on shit,” I am seeing more and more of high earning couples struggling, but this is too much for me. “On paper we’re not broke, but it feels like we are,” she recently told self-made millionaire Ramit Sethi on his “I Will Teach You to be Rich” podcast. Their last names were not used. Husband Brad works in Real Estate. Read more...

Imagine saying no to a client. Turning away a business deal with profit? How can you say no to that?

Every startup founder wants to push a minimum viable product (MVP) out to the market but they never ask if it’s the right MVP.

For years I fought against certain trends on the Internet. I fought against the siloing of your data by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Medium. They built vast empires on the backs of your content and I grumbled because I thought my little blog would change the world. Little did I know that it’s all about social media and how you use it. My biggest lesson from this fight is don’t swim against the tide. Read more...

I have nothing against reprioritizing tasks that add value to the project or mission, what I have a problem with is not critically evaluating each and every task.