Finance Hacks: Is Your Rent Too High?
It’s that time of the year again! My lease was up for renewal, and even though monthly rent went up 50 dollars, I decided to sign it. I am still within my set limit of “monthly rent <= 33.33% of...
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Measuring Impact: Where Did My Tax Dollars Go?
Speaking of the current tax reforms debates, let me chime in and share this excellent link to “Where Did My Tax Dollars Go?” visualization tool. Plug in your wages and tax filing status, and see how...
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Quantified Finance: Tracking Your Expenses in Mint
Personal finance is one of those aspects of our lives where accountability and objective measurement are of outmost importance. Any financial book or blog, whether it is about becoming rich, starting...
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Quantified Finance: Tracking Your Expenses in Ace Budget
In my previous post, I described my favorite tool for budgeting and tracking expenses, Mint. However, using Mint requires access to the Internet, which may be inconvenient at times. And, of course,...
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Quantified Finance: Free Alternatives to FICO Credit Score
Your credit score is one of the most widely used quantitative indicators of your creditworthiness. This three-digit number (it ranges between 300-850) is used by financial institutions and businesses...
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Financial Fitness Score: A Quantified-Self Alternative to Credit Scores
Lately, I have been thinking about scientifically sound approach to measuring personal financial fitness. By financial fitness, I mean both financial solvency and proficiency: the degree to which...
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A Quick Peek at My Quantified Self Experiments and Projects in January
I am very excited to start this year with some new awesome self-tracking projects and experiments! For now, the major emphasis remains on areas like sleep, fitness, diet, cognition, and psyche, but I...
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