Get Rich Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to learn what this site is about. I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Soon after I started Get Rich Slowly, a reporter from The Wall Street Journal called for an interview. I was a terrible subject. I was wary of him. I [...]

Yesterday I began training for the Portland Marathon — I joined a local group for a slow four-mile run. Not a bad start. Now I have just six more months of training before I’m ready! (My friend Leo at Zen Habits recently completed his second marathon. Go Leo!)
You guys have been sending me a lot [...]

Robert Kiyosaki is perhaps the best-selling personal finance author of the last decade. His Rich Dad, Poor Dad was one of the books that spurred me to take control of my own personal financs. However, Kiyosaki has many vocal critics, some of whom have valid complaints. His ideas are unconventional and controversial.
Kiyosaki has agreed (in [...]

Aside from Bacon Salt, I don’t usually call attention to the advertising at Get Rich Slowly. However, for the next two weeks there will be a couple of ads in the sidebar that deserve an explanation.
The first is labelled “8 secrets your credit card company doesn’t want you to know”. I think it looks [...]

Two long-time Get Rich Slowly readers recently let me know that they’ve launched new blogs. Chris Guillebeau has opened The Art of Non-Conformity, a site dedicated to unconventional strategies for life, work, and travel. “My site features unconventional ideas for remarkable people,” Chris writes. “Along the way, I visit every country in the world and [...]

Remember my fascination with Bacon Salt? Well, I’ve been e-mailing the Bacon Salt guys, and they’ve agreed to answer questions from GRS readers. Many of you have expressed an interest in entrepreneurship — now is your chance to interview two guys who are staking their future on a dream:
At one point, I walked into Starbucks, [...]

My buddy Charlie at PearBudget dropped me a line to ask Get Rich Slowly readers to go try the latest version. PearBudget is a new web-based application based around the envelope system of budgeting. Charlie writes:

We’re getting ready to come out of beta (maybe a week away?). If your readers want to try PearBudget for [...]

My pal David Hobby at Strobist, a great photography blog, occasionally gives assignments to his readers. For one recent project, David created a conceptual photo for me to use at Get Rich Slowly: a golden nest egg. I think this is awesome, and I’m grateful to David for having done this. I look forward to [...]

It’s been a busy week for me, though most of the work has been behind the scenes. I’m gradually finding my way into life of a full-time writer. Mostly, I’m catching up on old e-mail and preparing my workspace for maximum productivity. And, of course, I’ve been editing guest entries.
Here are some recent articles I’ve [...]

Full-time blogging has already paid off! I finally found time to begin editing the stack of guest posts I’ve received over the past few months. There’s some great stuff here, but there’s too much of it. (I still have articles that were submitted in October!)
In an effort to get caught up, I’m devoting this entire [...]