How a Boot Camp member saved $75,000 on his mortgage

6 stories about how members saved money in Week 1 of my Boot Camp.

Be the expert: What’s wrong with this real-estate comment?

Be the expert: What’s wrong with this newspaper comment on real estate as an investment?

What do Scarlett Johansson and Ramit Sethi have in common?

No, it’s not simply a love of talking about large breasts. My appearance on the cover of last month’s Glamour Magazine — including an example of how the media writes about money for women vs. men.

Time management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed papers — and finishes by 5:30pm

Learn extremely detailed tactics from Cal Newport, an MIT post-doc, on how he’s written 3 books, a blog with over 50,000 readers/month, a half-dozen peer reviewed papers — and still stops working at 5:30pm every day.

Behind the scenes: I was on the Today Show last week

I flew to New York last week to appear on the Today Show. Here’s the clip:

Interesting things to note:

Green rooms are the best places to meet people. I walked in and Maya Angelou was sitting there. In hair/makeup, Marissa Mayer and a bunch of other interesting people were there
You enter NBC through a totally unmarked [...]

The Money Diaries: The 25-year-old single mom who writes bad checks

Today’s entry is by a 25-year-old single mother. This woman’s spending is definitely troubling — she spends 8% of her take-home pay on self-described “bad habits,” including cigarettes and writing bad checks.