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There Is No Good Debt and Bad Debt. Debt Is Debt.


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Like nails on a blackboard, the mere mention of this notion that there is good debt and bad debt, irritates me. Debt is debt.

So I was reading this article on a law enforcement site about debt faced by police officers and it was trying to rationalize the old good debt versus bad debt argument.

The concept of good debt is a fairly simple one. Anything that will be worth more than the initial loan at the loan’s end can be considered good debt.

Now there is where I start shaking my head. That is not evidence of good debt, that’s … Continue Reading

Why Blog In Fear?


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Recently I wrote a post and mentioned fear and blogging in the same sentence. See Open Source Blogging - One Point of View.

That really made me think about how beneficial the concept of open source blogging really is. If you let go of the fear that someone may “borrow” your work and instead just concentrate on producing content, imagine the relief that you will feel.

It’s a bit like that old expression, “You don’t own your stuff, your stuff owns you.” A couple of years ago we moved from the United States to the UK and I think we got … Continue Reading