Mark Bergman

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• I am traveling and dont have time to cut and paste etc, however, while downloading articles to read on the plane i noticed that The Atlantic has two articles on AC, for those with access.

  Post: The Price of a Cool Pillow

  Link to comment from June 28, 2026

• There is a train of thought, coming from serious thinkers, that a reason, or one of the reasons, the EU has not kept pace with the US in terms of productivity and economic growth, is the lack of AC in Europe.

  Post: The Price of a Cool Pillow

  Link to comment from June 26, 2026

• Recent articles - sorry I don’t remember where - describing the results of research on retirement spending indicate : 1) retirees concern about running out of money leads to vast underspending 2) those with automatic income streams are considerably less prone to underspend.

  Post: Automatic Income stream? How important to you?

  Link to comment from June 26, 2026

• Real data would be nice - still waiting for an editor to respond ?

  Post: HD Reader’s Demographics

  Link to comment from June 17, 2026

• I believe it is a mistake to include your cars, and more controversially, your house in your net worth. Neither are liquid assets. Neither contributes to your funds available for spending/living. You have to live somewhere….. Mild exception ; if you have a reverse mortgage.

  Post: What’s in your portfolio ?

  Link to comment from June 15, 2026

• Same here, down I-80/90 in NE Ohio.

  Post: Lifetime Supply

  Link to comment from May 22, 2026

• Addendum: there is something very satisfying (?) to having made a purchase that was overpriced, not really needed, etc, but just went ahead and bought it anyway, without any second thoughts, just because I could !

  Post: Taste Bud Training

  Link to comment from May 22, 2026

• This reminds me of folks who will drive 5 extra miles, spending 30 minutes round trip, to save 10 cents/gallon on gas. I am all for not wasting money, however, life is too short to sweat such small things. Best I can tell, Mark, you can afford it ! That’s what you worked for all of those years. I no longer spend any time worrying about what are piddling expenses in the grand scheme of things. As I wrote elsewhere on HD a few weeks ago, as per Nick Maggiulli, if it costs less than 0.01% of your net worth, there is no reason to give the purchase(s) a second thought.

  Post: Taste Bud Training

  Link to comment from May 22, 2026

• “As children we enter life wide end first” For some reason this made me think about the ~ 5 deliveries I actively participated in during med school. As the women here can attest, especially on Mother’s Day, the entry into life is anything but wide end first !

  Post: The Mirrored Funnel

  Link to comment from May 10, 2026

• A great example of where Nick Maggiulli’s 0.01% rule would have been handy : https://finance.yahoo.com/news/0-01-rule-money-expert-130000592.html

  Post: Dickie and his magic beans

  Link to comment from May 6, 2026