No matter which programming language you use as a programmer you find yourself dipping in and out of coding. Whether you pick it up when you get inspired or need it for a specific project you might find that you are rusty and need to relearn certain aspects of the language you need. I have been a hobby programmer for several years working on personal projects and found myself in this situation many times as I come out of hiatus for projects. Below are some tips and resources to help get you back on your feet and back into your IDE as fast as possible. Start today but start small- You may get overwhelmed jumping immediately into complex projects so build smaller projects, bug fixing, or simple scripts. But most importantly start today because it's very easy to procrastinate and wait for "tomorrow" and tomorrow never comes. No excuses start now! -->https://code.visualstudio.com/Download Review your old work- Go through old projects and figure out what and why you did the code. You may also refactor and update the code if you learned to make it better and more efficient or apply a different method. You are your own greatest teacher. Embrace tutorial hell- Tutorials are natural for programmers. I'll still watch tutorials 30 years later no matter how experienced I become because it's impossible to remember everything and a waste of time to try. The key is to brush up on specific parts you forgot you don't need to watch a whole 12-hour tutorial again! Building projects is your top priority not watching videos. https://www.freecodecamp.org/ https://www.w3schools.com/ https://www.coursera.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@BroCodez/videos https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp/videos Plenty of other resources and apps but only use them to get to the IDE faster

I currently have 20 stocks in my portfolio. None of which are BRKA or B. However, I remember the late great Charlie Munger state during their annual BRK meeting that "you only need one stock." That is of course if you bought it at below fair value and it has substantially risen over time between price and/or dividends. However, the problem I have is two-fold. One is that I do not like sitting on cash. I want my money working at all times. The second issues is that when I purchase a stock and it proceeds to run higher, I DO NOT purchase more shares. I typically wait a reasonable time to purchase that stock if it has a pullback or I go to the "market of stocks" and shop for bargains. I am just curious, how many stocks should you own in a portfolio?

Just when we learn the 4% rule from Mr. Bengen with the assistance from Nathan in Module 3, the 4% Rule appears to have changed. Check out this new article including changes in asset allocation. Please see the attached link: https://www.fa-mag.com/news/all-cap-withdrawal-magic-77786.html?issue=374

What group name should we have? Vote down below! Thanks @Kyle H. via ChatGPT 😎 for these ideas!

So it would be interesting to hear from those who want to share what their biggest monetary mistake they have made. Here is mine. Sold one of my businesses in 1987 and had $220k cash in the corporation, some from retained earnings and some from the business sale, the balance of the sale in financed payment note. I was told I could not leave the money in the corp. as it would be considered a personal holding company against IRS rules! I used some of this cash to start another business. What I should have done is invested in the stock market is as we were at that moment at the bottom of the market downturn October 1987. Imagine what that value would be today if it was basically in a S&P 500 fund? One other thing. Since I had to remove the money from the corporation I had a tax bill that year of $52,000+.