It’s time to call a spade a spade. The Real Estate Council of BC talks about the responsibility of real estate agents here. Scanning down the page there is a section dedicated to ‘fiduciary duty’. This term sound big but it’s pretty simple. Lawyers have it, too. They have to look out for the best interests of their clients and…
Category: Life Skills
Typoglycemia and Speed Reading
Today I was thinking about the mind and how typos can be easily read and understood by people of the same mother tongue. I finally found the example by searching the keywords ‘ESL, typos, understand, native,”. Here is a good summary of what’s up with typoglycemia What jumped out at me was the explanation of why ‘they’ think it happens.…
Speed Reading: Man I wish I took this course in Elementary School
Today I learned how much not learning speed reading cost me in my life. The concept is simple when you break it down. Time is money. Why is time money? Your life is simply how much time God has given you before you die. Ta-dah. So if you want to get more out of your life, wasting less time and…
Google forced by Europe to remove search results?
All I can say is ‘beware’ if this European ruling against Google gains traction. All of the pain mentioned in this BBC article will become real including, but not limited to: censored information like China abuse of power by those with money to fight in court (ie. a company with a lot of money could have the whistle blowing work…
Scammy Moves by Financial Institutions
For now I’m going to spare my ‘financial institution’ the bad press they deserve. I’m going to remove their name from this and I’m going to give them about six months to one year to see how they treat me as a prime borrower. If they goof up any major (or minor) thing I’m going to come back to this…
Are Payday Loan Businesses Evil?
I have been looking into the payday loan business. It intrigues me both as an entrepreneur but even more so on the ethics side. There is a serious stigma associated with payday loan businesses that they are evil and help to ruin lives. This is a broadcast about our local city Burnaby showing the same thing: that we must unite…
Are LED bulbs worth it?
Are LED bulbs worth it… yet? I’m pondering the question. This blog post is simple. I want to make sure I don’t lose the best post I’ve seen on the topic so that I can come back to this and finish my study! I will conclude my thoughts on the matter after I actually cross that bridge. Here is the…
Origins of April Fools (All Fools Day) Day
April Fools day has thrown me off since I was a kid. I thought it was quite irrational if not ‘wrong’ that there would be a day when you could trick (a.k.a. lying) your parents and do pranks and not get in trouble. I noticed people also enjoyed tricking me. For me it was the only day of the year…
What to Say and What Not to Say
Over the last few years it has been interesting to learn just how little we all know about law, and more specifically, freedom of speech. 2013 and 2014, if I could summarize, would be for me ‘The Legal Years’. My circumstances forced me to get out of the boat, shun my fear of law and lawyers and start to learn…
How to Formally and Politey Kill Your LinkedIn Account
Concerned about your privacy and security? Looked up ‘privacy violations LinkedIn’ in a search engine and not feeling so good? Maybe it’s time to delete your account, but you want to make sure that at least your contacts can reach you elsewhere. Here is a step by step about how to say bye-bye in the most courteous way. Compose your…