Archive | June, 2014

Pen Pals and payPal

The loyal3 experiment continues down a predictable path. When I first found out about this opportunity, my feeling was that it had to be a short-lived one. As I saw it, a financial/tech start up had decided to make a devil’s bargain along the lines of “We’ll allow you (read pay for you) to run […]

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Measuring Stick

One of the reasons that economics is so interesting is that it really gets at what makes us tick as human beings.As far as I can tell, this science is the study of human incentive. Now I am not saying that human beings are motivated only by money . We are motivated by sex, and […]

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Better than Sliced Bread

Damn this is fun. Travel hacking in general, and manufactured spending specifically really hit a bunch of high points with me. There’s the illicit pleasure of doing something that you’re not supposed to do. It reminds me of raiding my parents’ liquor cabinet as a 13-year-old with my friends. Ahhh…. Manufactured spending plus geri curl […]

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Brush with Greatness

Last Thursday I had a tremendous opportunity. Mr. Money Mustache himself was on his West Coast swing, and had planned a get together with a couple of other blogs and blog groupies (guilty as charged) at a local park in Portland. And I just couldn’t resist the urge to go. You see it is not […]

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Spring Rolls and Loyal3

Spring is springing around here. Nettles and dandelions are poking through my raised beds. Grasses are stubbornly shooting through the cracks in between my patio bricks. There is a strange yellow orb in the sky where the clouds used to be. The air is warm and redolent with Pollen and other allergens. And the miles […]

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