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My 10-Year Companion: The ESV Thinline Bible That Goes Everywhere With Me

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Apple AirPods Pro 2 Review: My Daily Essential for Work and Life

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Mueller Rapid Boil Electric Kettle Review: Why I’ve Trusted This Kitchen Workhorse for Over 5 Years

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Ryobi 40V HP Brushless Jet Fan Blower (RY404100) Review: Whisper-Quiet Power for Your Yard

Note: This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. If you’re tired of wrestling with gas-powered leaf blowers—dealing with fuel mixing, pull-starts, and deafening noise—the Ryobi 40V HP Brushless Cordless Jet Fan Blower (RY404100) might be the game-changer your yard maintenance…
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Healthcare costs and spending

Healthcare spending in the US has been steadily rising over the years, which leads us to wonder what’s going on. The National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) are the official estimates of total health care spending in the United States. … U.S. health care spending grew 5.8 percent in 2015, reaching $3.2 trillion or $9,990 per person.…
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What is Impact Investing?

Impact Investing is not necessarily new, but the phrase has been more recently used. It’s essentially a phrase that is used to cover a range of organizations and companies that focus on building an ecosystem of the double bottom line results through financial and ESG impact. ESG stands for Environmental, Social, or Governance. Most of these…
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Why Social Entrepreneurship is awesome!

I’ve been thinking about how I can help people for a long time. I can’t really say that I knew what I wanted to do growing up, but I knew that I wanted it to involve helping people in some way. At first, I went to Cornell with the same goal as every other asian,…
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Homelessness and Long Term Housing

One thing you can’t ignore when you’re living in NYC is homelessness. It’s impossible unless you’ve somehow managed to glue your eyelids shut. It’s prominent and widespread. Ever since I’ve lived in NYC I’ve noticed it everywhere I go throughout the city. People may stand on the sides of highways begging, in the subways, sleeping…
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Our Life through Private Equity

Stumbled upon this great article “This is your life, Brought to you by Private Equity” in the NY Times sent by my girlfriend. It’s definitely more pictures than words, but it does a great job simplifying the world as we know it run by private equity firms. private equity firms manage more of the world’s…
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Healthcare needs to change

The climate of healthcare in America is rapidly changing. It’s changing with or without the Affordable Care Act, or otherwise known as Obamacare. As much as people despise Obamacare, it was a step in the right direction in a country where health care should be much further along than it currently is. Millions of people…
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