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Written by Josh Ginter.

January 2021

→ The Pandemic Changed My Mind About Peloton ●

We ordered our Peloton at the end of October to early November 2020, knowing full well it would be a good 10 weeks before delivery. Of course, 10 weeks have come and gone, and today, after waiting a week for Peloton’s customer service department to email me back, they tell me it’s going to be another 6 weeks of waiting. That Peloton bike better be impressive — this is utterly ridiculous already.

January 2021

→ What I Include in My Personal Net Worth ●

This week is Part 2 of my oddly-named “How to Budget 2021” mini-series over on the Toonie Newsletter. In short, including your assets and your liabilities on your personal net worth statement will quickly provide you a starting point and a finish line for your budget. As always, if you like what you read, feel free to subscribe so you don’t have to get the link from The Newsprint each week.

January 2021

→ The Sun Blasted Earth With the Biggest Storm in 10,000 Years in 774 AD ●

Fascinating story. As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with Mother Nature here on Earth.

January 2021

→ The Two Pieces of My Annual Financial Plan ●

Though I took a three-week hiatus, I continue to work hard to provide some useful financial advice over at my weekly Toonie Newsletter. Naturally, I highly recommend you read last week’s newsletter before this week drops into inboxes this coming Friday morning. Last week, I discussed how a budget and a personal net worth statement work a lot better when used in tandem. And this week, I am writing about what to include and not to include in that personal net worth statement.

January 2021

→ American Politics Gets Everywhere ●

This quick post from Greg Morris struck a chord with me. I find the entire discourse State-side to be so off-putting — not specifically when it comes from Americans, but rather when it comes from non-Americans looking down their noses. We all have our own problems in our own countries. Let’s take the log out of our own eyes before we attempt to lecture anyone else on the log in theirs.

January 2021

→ Musk Tells You to Use Signal ●

If you followed Dave Portnoy at all in the past, this story about investors putting their money into the wrong stock won’t be all that surprising. Nonetheless, Musk’s recommendation is a good one — a friend of mine recommended Signal and it seems pretty good to my eye.

January 2021

→ Reeder 5 for Mac ●

Almost all my RSS reading has been done on the iPad for the last year. But this little M1 MacBook Air is too much fun — I don’t want to put it down for anything right now. Reeder 5 is extraordinarily well done on the Mac. I prefer Unread 2 on the iPad for reading, but on the Mac, Reeder 5 is impressive.

January 2021

→ Jobs in 2030 and How the Economy Will Look in a Decade ●

This one may be behind a paywall on the Wall Street Journal, so I’m including the Apple News link with hopes you can read it. Long story short, an aging population, a booming technological revolution, and the ever-threatening machination and automation of specific jobs makes for an interesting 2030 prediction.

January 2021

→ Ultimate Star Wars Character Strength and Power Tier List ●

An abnormal amount of time was put into the research for this video and it shows. I’m not sure I agree with the choices at the end, but there’s a process to the madness nonetheless.

January 2021

→ Marius Masalar’s Review of the AirPods Max ●

Tonight may be a night of linking to only my friends’s work, but so be it. The best part of Marius’s review is that he is an audiophile. He actually knows what to listen for, what the technical details are, and what the physical limitations may be.