I like taking a problem and coming up with a solution so extreme that I end up happy I had the problem in the first place. Taking showers in the RV is acceptable at best, and on cool winter days is a bit of a chore. I solved that problem by joining a spa in…

I once visited some friends in San Francisco who had copied our idea of renting an extravagant house and splitting the cost between the pickup artists who lived there. We called ours Project Hollywood, they called theirs Project San Francisco. We sat around their living room, bonding over stories of the perks and follies of…

I’ve spent most of my time in San Francisco since fleeing the oppressive summer heat of Texas. Since then, mostly thanks to awesome recommendations from other people, I’ve discovered some amazing places here. This is a selection of my favorites… all of which should be checked out by anyone who lives here. Know somewhere else…

After years of butchering a few foreign languages, I’ve developed a keen ear for them. I can’t necessarily understand what people are saying, but if someone is speaking in one of the languages I can get by in, I can hear it across the room. An older man and a younger Japanese woman were sitting…

I used to park my RV in a bad area of SF. No one else wants to park there, so it’s always easy to find a spot. One night a friend and I were hanging out in my RV, we lost track of time, and soon the buses weren’t running anymore. She calls a cab…

This was going to be a long sweeping article about how wrong we are when we care about different things: how many megapixels a camera has, how much electricity we use by keeping the lights on, using cell phones on airplanes, and swimming in the water when there’s lightning out. But instead of trying to…

A couple weeks ago I did an “I Am A” on Reddit about being a former pickup artist, which meant that thousands of people could ask me questions about it. And they did. The questions flooded in faster than I could reasonably respond to them, which meant that sometimes I didn’t answer in as much…

On Tuesday I announced a contest to help Ramit promote his upcoming six week financial bootcamp. The premise was this: we played five rounds of Liar’s Poker, and whoever could guess the final score and guess the final digits on our last dollar bills would win. Before I show you the video with the results,…

One of the more interesting people I’ve met since moving to San Francisco is Ramit Sethi, bestselling author and blogger at I Will Teach You to Be Rich. He takes an out of the box approach towards personal finance that resonates well with me. In particular I like how he focuses on conscious spending and…