Month: October 2018

Twenty years ago, I started preschool at Prescott Elementary School in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It was a classic upbringing in a blue-collar neighborhood. It was simpler. Math was math, kids were kids, there was no air conditioning, and corporal punishment was

Recently, I found myself on the Wikipedia page for Memcached, a popular distributed object caching system. It turns out that the open-source project was developed by the guy who created LiveJournal. LiveJournal is a blogging site that started in 1999,

I’m a big fan of low-cost mutual funds and the firms that peddle them. Firms like Vanguard have changed the game and helped people from all walks of life reach their financial goals more quickly and with less fine print.