What I'm Reading, Watching, Playing
Reading: 'Fatal Conveniences: The Toxic Products and Harmful Habits That Are Making You Sick―and the Simple Changes That Will Save Your Health.'
I heard author Darin Olien on the Rich Roll podcast recently and immediately grabbed this book from the library.
In conjunction with the Yuka app that allows me to scan the barcodes of ever product I use to see their health rating, this book Fatal Conveniences is arming me with the knowledge I need to keep harmful products out of my life.
I’m not obsessive about this by any means, but if there are ‘low-hanging fruit’ ways to make small healthy changes to things like soap, deodorant, sunscreen, etc., then I want to make those decisions.
Watching: I’m rewatching the musical ‘Hamilton’ on Disney+. This is my all-time favorite Broadway musical, and since I’m heading on a trip to New York City, it reminded me of the trip I took with my daughter, Molly, two years ago where we saw it performed live on Broadway.
That was a wonderful experience for the two of us, and it’s incredible that you can call this up anytime for your viewing enjoyment on Disney+.
Playing: My daughters introduced me to a new game and it’s one of my absolute favorite new games of the past few years: Skull King.
This was made by the ‘Grandpa Beck’s Games’ company which made one of our other favorite games: Cover Your Assets, and the girls were raving about it after playing it with family friends.
It’s a novel version of a standard ‘trick-taking game’ like Hearts or Spades, so if you’re already familiar with the framework of trick-taking, then this will come easy.
This game hits all the right notes – fairly quick to play the entire game (sub 45 minutes), you can play with up to 8 players, betting on your number of expected tricks, some powerful extra cards thrown in and it’s just a ton of fun to play.
Highly recommend this one!
Reasons NOT to Worry about Sequence of Returns Risk
Sean Mullaney published a really thoughtful article on why he doesn’t ‘worry much about sequence of returns risk’ and while I implore you to read this short article in its entirety, I’ll whet your appetite by listing the five reasons he doesn’t (much) worry about sequence of returns risk when applied to ‘well diversified retirees’:
· Diversification
· Social Security
· You Won’t March Off the Cliff (Spending adjustments)
· Market Bounces Back
· Cash is Not a Free Lunch