{"id":6100,"date":"2014-10-30T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2014-10-30T09:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T01:34:52","slug":"personal-finance-for-engineers-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/30\/personal-finance-for-engineers-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Finance For Engineers &#8211; Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Last month, Wealthfront&#8217;s \u00a0Adam Nash gave a speech at Twitter headquarters entitled\u00a0&#8220;Personal Finance for Engineers.&#8221;<br \/>\nPersonal finance can be a &#8220;noisy&#8221; field, with a lot of investing aphorisms thrown around as fact.<br \/>\nAnd because engineers understand and prefer math, as Nash describes them, they tend to think they are being rational with their money &#8230; even when they are not.<br \/>\nGiven the imminent IPO, and the windfall that will accrue to several employees, this is an important lesson.<br \/>\nNash&#8217;s presentation is a solid intro and useful refresher into the world of personal finance, especially for the more quantitatively-inclined.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/personal-finance-for-engineers-2013-11?op=1\">Personal Finance For Engineers &#8211; Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Wealthfront&#8217;s \u00a0Adam Nash gave a speech at Twitter headquarters entitled\u00a0&#8220;Personal Finance for Engineers.&#8221; Personal finance can be a &#8220;noisy&#8221; field, with a lot of investing aphorisms thrown around as fact. And because engineers understand and prefer math, as Nash describes them, they tend to think they are being rational with their money &#8230; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/30\/personal-finance-for-engineers-business-insider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Personal Finance For Engineers &#8211; Business Insider&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-finance","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}