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12 Finance Lessons from Nudge by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
Richard H. Thaler’s & Cass R. Sunstein’s book Nudge: Improving decisions about health wealth and happiness is on my to-reread list. If you want to get great book recommendations, ask bookworms to give you a list of books they have re-read or plan to reread. This...
10 Money Lessons from Summiting Mt Kenya
Between 10th and 15th July 2019, a group of 19 alumni of Starehe, 16 old boys, 3 old girls and 1 staff member took up an enormous challenge: to summit Mt Kenya (point Lenana, 4985 metres above sea level) and raise $60,000 for the Griffin Memorial Trust Fund while at...
Why is Financial Planning & Awareness Important?
Writing inspiration didn’t come to me this week. Maybe because I’ve been feeling both physically and mentally fatigued. I want to fill that leave form and ask for 1 week off, but I’ve been wondering if that will be a waste of my leave days. Ideally, I’d want to spend...
Is a Scarcity Mentality Keeping You Broke?
A few weeks back, I wrote an article on what wealth means to me. One of the items on my list was having free time ‘just sitting, without having to worry about the next meal.’ I wrote that “growing up in poverty meant that when you sit to ‘relax’, the first thing that...
What is Your Net Worth? How To Calculate Your Net Worth And Why It Matters
What is your net worth? If you asked me that question 5 years ago, I’d have thought you were crazy. Broke people don’t have a net worth, right? I’d have also immediately thought of Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bezos, Chris Kirubi, Beyonce'… because to me, some...
Of Dumb Money Moves
Let’s talk about our dumb money moves. Ways in which you blew part of your money or all of your money then later looked at yourself and you for sure felt dumb. How have you dug yourself in a deep financial hole in the past? As you think about yours, lemme tell you...
