Personal finance links: shrinking footprints
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
22 hours ago
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Podcasts
- Jim Dahle talks with William Bernstein about what it really means to “stop playing when you win the game.” (whitecoatinvestor.com)
- Steve Chen talks with Paula Pant, founder of Afford Anything. (podcasts.apple.com)
Books
- Ben’s favorite books from 2025 including “Best Movie Year Ever” by Brian Raftery. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Some personal finance books and articles from 2025 including “How NOT to Invest” by Barry Ritholtz. (humbledollar.com)
- An excerpt from “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel. (collabfund.substack.com)
Retirement
- The fear of running out money in retirement is real. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Nine proven ways to increase happiness in retirement. (theretirementmanifesto.com)
- How to think about cash management in retirement. (peterlazaroff.com)
- On the courage needed in retirement. (jordangrumet.substack.com)
Family
- How to wean your adult children off the family payroll. (nytimes.com)
- Younger generations have embraced prenups. (newyorker.com)
- Caregiving is no joke. (yahoo.com)
Housing
- A majority of outstanding mortgages are still below 4%. (wsj.com)
- Fire hardening a California house is expensive and no guarantee. (bloomberg.com)
Taxes
- Why you may want to hit pause before putting money into a Trump account for your child. (wapo.st)
- Beware bad Roth IRA conversion hype. (bestinterest.blog)
Work
- What you can learn from a sabbatical. (theartofwandering.substack.com)
- What to do if you think you are about to get laid off. (wsj.com)
- Not everyone needs to become an entrepreneur. (dariusforoux.com)
Lessons
- 25 lessons on money including ‘Money is one part data and math, two parts imagination and personal awareness.’ (rootofall.substack.com)
- Five lessons learned from financial advisors including ‘No shame in getting help.’ (mr-stingy.com)
- What money lessons do you wish you were taught in school? (ft.com)
Personal finance
- Oliver Burkeman, “Constantly berating yourself to do things from a sense of self-imposed obligation – with the feeling that you absolutely have to do them, in order to count as an adequate human – is a miserable way to live.” (ckarchive.com)
- Six easy things you can do for your finances before 2024. (msn.com)
- The case against a ‘Die With Zero’ philosophy. (whitecoatinvestor.com)
- The best purchases combine experiences and things. (meaningfulmoney.life)
- How to hedge the worst-case scenario. (ofdollarsanddata.com)
- Two thirds of Americans expect to reach 80. (today.yougov.com)
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