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Help Wanted
Pony Express When I launched this blog back in the good old days, I barely knew what a blog was. I had heard the term but I had never actually seen one. I joke that the first blog post I ever read was...
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YNAB: Best Place to Work Ever?
You want this: Not this: Trust me. The second hand made its agonizingly deliberate sweep. All eyes were locked to it. Ever so slowly it erased first the seconds, and then the minutes, on the plodding...
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jlcollinsnh gets a new suit
Welcome to our still classic new look! Just about three years ago jlcollinsnh.com underwent its first redesign and the sweeping changes you have become used to were ushered in. There were lots of...
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Angel Investing, or Angel Philanthropy?
Would you accept money from this angel? If you are reading this blog there is a very good chance you are rich. Or well on your way to becoming rich. Or you may be closer to your starting point and...
View ArticleHow to give when you have a business
A few years back, three very different things happened and, to the best of my recollection they didn’t happen all that close together. First, in 2012, I wrote the post How to Give Like a Billionaire....
View ArticleMariah International: All that glitters…
This… Is in here… All this excitement surrounding GameStop of late has made me a bit nostalgic. It brings back memories, although not necessarily good ones. Still, time passes, wounds heal and we can...
View ArticleHelp Wanted: a new book
Ever since publishing The Simple Path to Wealth, the idea of publishing another book has been rattling around in my brain. I’ve just needed time for the memory of how awful a task writing a book is to...
View ArticleChainsaws and Credit Cards
50 years ago, I was putting myself through college working with a tree crew outside of Chicago taking down huge, majestic elm trees. They had been infected with the tiny beetles that caused Dutch Elm...
View ArticleJLCollinsnh.com Enters New Era
In the beginning… Forgive me if you have heard this tale before. I’ve told it several times now on various podcasts. It is the origin story of this blog. Back in 2011 I began writing a series of...
View ArticleChautauqua: A terrible business model
To be clear right from the start here, Chautauqua is an awesome event. Indeed, and in many ways, precisely because it is a terrible business model. But it is a terrible business model. Why? It is not...
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