Have you been overworking yourself to death for the last several months? Have you been languishing, or feeling like there is no point in the things you typically spend your time on? …

A few months ago, I wrote about the habit of waking up early to exercise before work. At the time, I was using an app called Centr to plan protein shake meals and find new exercises each morning. I still recommend what I said in that post. Besides that there…

“We all have 168 hours a week, but not all hours are equally suited to all things.” - Laura Vanderkam Imagine the following scenario: You stay up late Sunday night for whatever reason: you played video games late into the night, you got some drinks with friends, you put in…

In the 12 years I have been in the workforce, I have become exceptionally skilled at finding and landing jobs. I have held 18 of them in that time window, from “gigs” to “dead-end jobs” to “careers” to “side hustles” to “running my own (very) small business.” In that time…

Is it a struggle to pay the bills every month? Does it feel like you are throwing every dollar you have into surviving, only to feel like you have nothing left over to show for it? …

Let’s face it: we all have bad habits. They sneak into our lives in a variety of insidious ways. Sometimes we learn them from others, sometimes we pick them up to ignore how stressed out we are, and sometimes they start filling time for no good reason. I am no…

It’s been a hard couple of weeks. I was completely unprepared to work from home 100% of the time. …

When I was in high school, I did not know what I wanted to do in life. Other people said I was a good writer, but I struggled to imagine myself doing it professionally. …

In addition to all of my blog posts about personal finance, I thought it might be interesting and valuable to start a more technical series of posts geared toward those of my readers who are software developers. I’m going to kick this concept off by answering a question I got in an actual technical interview: given an array of letters in the alphabet, which can appear multiple times, return a hash of letter counts sorted alphabetically. For example, the following array: