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Your work may not be original, but that’s not the point

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on June 27, 2013 | Featured

For those who haven’t read the post about Ze Frank, go watch this video. Go ahead, I’ll wait. A terrible place between zero and one I confess I watched this video with a strange mixture of excitement, amazement, and … Read More … Read More

Tags: Alain de Botton, Death Cab For Cutie, Jackson Pollock, Jon Acuff, love songs, Marcel Proust, originality, Virginia Woolf, Ze Frank

Honorary Ex-Velleitier: Ze Frank

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on June 24, 2013 | Featured

I don’t usually (well actually ever) embed YouTube videos, but I’m going to make an exception here. So please watch this, it’s only 181 seconds long: … Read More

Tags: ex-velleitier, messages, video, Ze Frank

Assume you will return

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on June 20, 2013 | Featured

I’ve been helping to plan some travels for someone else recently, a nice change for me given how often people talk about how they aren’t able to travel. We’re going through all the usual decisions, but knowing that there … Read More … Read More

Tags: pressure, travel

What do you value?

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on June 17, 2013 | Featured

Joe Biden, the current US Vice President as of the time of writing (and possibly the most famous person from Delaware), is on record with a great quote: “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and … Read More … Read More

Tags: budgeting, Joe Biden, values

What is the difference between a friend and a love?

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on June 6, 2013 | Featured

The standard social model is as follows: You have a large number of acquaintances, followed by a smaller number of close friends, and then at the top: the single solitary love. Putting aside the acquaintances for now, it’s the … Read More … Read More

Tags: friends, love, relationships, sex, society

On losing a friend

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on June 3, 2013 | Featured

I’ve talked before about being grateful: for your health, for your security/safety, for your freedom, but most of all for your friends and family. You may think that your most important work is your job, career, hobbies, or art, … Read More … Read More

Tags: feelings, friends, friendship, grief, loss, meaning, relationships

How much float do you need?

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on May 30, 2013 | Featured

In my last post, I talked about the importance of having “float” in your checking account. Float is that extra cushion of money in your account that’s above and beyond the money that comes in from your income. The … Read More … Read More

Tags: budgeting, float, money

Why you need float in your account

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on May 27, 2013 | Featured

If you’re most people, you have a single checking account that you use as your primary reserve of money. (If you don’t have a checking account and live out of the contents of a cookie jar, that’s a little … Read More … Read More

Tags: budgeting, checking account, float, money

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Your work may not be original, but that’s not the point

Honorary Ex-Velleitier: Ze Frank

Assume you will return

What do you value?

What is the difference between a friend and a love?

On losing a friend

How much float do you need?

Why you need float in your account

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